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Don't Stop Until You Reach the End

Distrust expert answers and drive every problem to ground-truth yourself

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Evaluative User Research (Hunt for Reasons They Won't Use It)

Test prototypes to find every reason people won't use it — and never let the researcher go alone

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Eyes Light Up

Track the moments faces change, then cut everything that doesn't produce them.

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Feature Team vs. Empowered Product Team Diagnostic

Tell in minutes whether your squad is handed features to ship or problems to solve

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Productivity5 steps

Flow-Preserving AI Assistance Design

Design AI suggestions around the user's flow state: no panel switches, no waiting, ephemeral by default

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Leadership3 steps

Hire Founders (Eyes Open to the Costs)

Recruit ex-founders for outsized output and truth-telling, budgeting for high attrition

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Leadership3 steps

Hire the People That People Pick

Win great hires over months by adding value first, long before there's a role

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Leadership5 steps

Managing Up by Calibrated Context

Proactively give your boss exactly enough context to weigh in — scaled to reversibility.

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Persona-Framing for AI Product Behavior

Pick a human metaphor for your AI, then derive its behavioral guardrails from that role

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Communication5 steps

Recommendation-First Writing

Lead with the call, label the context, and never hide a point of view inside a neutral-looking pros-and-cons list.

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Innovation7 steps

Research-to-Product Graduation

Move an incubated moonshot from the research lab to a product team without killing it or trapping the researchers

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Productivity5 steps

Saying No by Trading Off

Never say no. Say yes, name what it displaces, and hand the prioritisation back.

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Innovation4 steps

Solution-Weighted Discovery

Spend a little time validating the problem; spend most of it winning on the solution

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Communication3 steps

Start Right Before You Get Eaten by the Bear

Open your story one beat before the juicy part — everything earlier is backstory scope creep.

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Leadership3 steps

Startup-Within-a-Company Team Design

Build new things inside big companies with small, senior, trusted teams and manufactured discipline

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Strategy5 steps

The 60/30/10 Portfolio Capacity Split

Allocate team capacity across incremental wins, operations, and audacious bets before priorities compete

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Mindset4 steps

The Best-Teams Adoption Heuristic

Adopt a practice only if several of the best teams already use it — then strip the culture from the technique

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Communication3 steps

The Content Hierarchy of BS

Rank formats by how much they let you get away with — then hold yourself to the top of the pyramid.

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Strategy4 steps

The Differentiation Stack

Four ordered tests a product must pass to matter, not just exist

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Strategy4 steps

The Diseases of a Devolving Product Company

Four diagnosable diseases that turn a great product company into a feature factory

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Innovation4 steps

The Four Product Risks and Their Owners

Valuable, usable, feasible, viable — any one fails and the product fails

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Leadership5 steps

The One-Quarter Empowered Team Experiment

Convert a single feature team into an empowered product team in one low-risk quarter

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Self-Mastery4 steps

The Product Manager's Four Areas of Homework

The four knowledge domains a PM must own because nobody else on the team can bring them

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Communication4 steps

The State Change Method

Punctuate every monologue with something that shakes the audience awake, every 3-5 minutes.

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Communication5 steps

The Super Specific How

Cut the what and the why; spend your word count on the how nobody else will teach.

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Communication5 steps

The Teach-Me-Something-In-One-Minute Interview

A 60-second timed teaching exercise scored on completeness, complexity, and clarity

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Leadership5 steps

The Three Sacred Accesses

Delegate anything off the PM's plate except direct access to customers, engineers, and stakeholders

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