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Ad Strength Hole-in-the-Ship Diagnostic

Use Google's brand vs non-brand ad-strength report to find the one fix that lifts the whole account

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Innovation6 steps

Automated User Research Pipeline

Wire sales-call keywords to Slack to email to your calendar so customer interviews book themselves.

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Leadership6 steps

Baseline, Train, Practice, Level-Set

Turn hundreds of legacy product owners into real PMs by letting people self-select out

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Leadership4 steps

Capacity-Red Headcount Justification

Add headcount only when a days-committed-vs-days-in-quarter calculator stays red after cutting low-value work

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Innovation4 steps

Decompose-and-Ensemble

Break a broad problem into specific tasks, then solve each with a specialized model in an ensemble.

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Leadership4 steps

Design the Job to Fit the Person

Stop hunting unicorns against made-up job descriptions; reshape roles around the good people you find

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Leadership5 steps

Drawing the Perimeter

The PM's job is to add constraints, not solutions — draw the box, then let engineers and designers fill it.

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Self-Mastery5 steps

Energy Drivers and Energy Drains Audit

Mine your past for moments that energized or drained you, then turn them into job design requirements

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Innovation4 steps

Eval-Driven Product Development

Design the test for your AI product alongside the product, then hill-climb the model against it.

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Innovation5 steps

Future-Backward Aspirational Strategy (Big-s)

Design-led, ~6-month process that imagines distinct 5–10 year futures and prototypes them as concept cars.

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Mindset5 steps

Identity Separation After a Layoff

Sort what happened into 'not needed', 'wrong environment', and 'in my control' — only one of them is about you.

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Marketing4 steps

Incrementality via Conversion Lift & Geo Tests

Prove paid actually caused growth by withholding ads from a control group and measuring the lift

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Self-Mastery4 steps

Job Prototyping via Informational Interviews

Treat yourself as a product: prototype many roles wide, interview people who hold them, then narrow

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Strategy3 steps

Model Maximalism

Build at the edge of what models can barely do — the next model will make it sing.

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Communication3 steps

Newspaper Headline Winning Aspiration

Have the team write the future headline about your product, then blend the headlines into one aspiration.

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Leadership5 steps

One Product Ladder (Kill the PO/PM Split)

Collapse product owner and product manager into a single APM → PM → Senior PM ladder

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Marketing5 steps

Paid Channel Sequencing Ladder

The order to adopt paid platforms: user-driven search first, disruptive media next, expensive targeting last

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Productivity2 steps

Poor Man's Fine-Tuning (Few-Shot + Role Priming)

Steer a model with in-prompt examples and a role identity instead of a full fine-tune.

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Strategy5 steps

Present-Forward Product Strategy Playbook (Small-s)

A repeatable five-phase, 8–12 week process to turn scattered inputs into three focused strategic pillars.

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Strategy5 steps

Problem-to-Pillar Down-Select

Cluster raw problems, flip them into opportunities, then rank on four criteria to pick exactly three pillars.

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Self-Mastery3 steps

Pushes and Pulls Compass

You only truly change jobs when a set of pushes builds enough energy and pulls point the direction

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Innovation3 steps

Reason About It Like a Human

To design or debug AI behavior, ask what an equivalent human would do in the same situation.

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Leadership5 steps

Ship-Fast Operating Model

Lightweight bottoms-up planning, PM-light teams, and iterative deployment in a fast-moving domain.

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Marketing3 steps

Signal vs Noise Metric Selection

Let the campaign's single goal decide which metric is signal — everything else is noise

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Mindset6 steps

The Agile Industrial Complex Test

Before you adopt a methodology, ask how the people selling it make their money

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Leadership5 steps

The 'Can You See What Good Looks Like?' Staffing Test

If nobody in your org has done it before, no amount of training will produce it

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Self-Mastery5 steps

The Decision Log

Build product sense by logging decisions you'd make, the reasoning, and later the actual outcome.

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Strategy4 steps

The Foundational Three Entry Path

Don't start in PM. Start as the person you'd be taking PM responsibilities from — engineer, designer, or seller.

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Self-Mastery5 steps

The Four Career Quests

Diagnose which of four job-change 'quests' you're on so you optimize the move correctly

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Strategy6 steps

The Four-Pillar Product Operating Model

Build a product operating model on strategy, org design, product ops and incentives — not a dev framework

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Leadership3 steps

The Fruit Story: Leadership Pre-Alignment Interviews

Interview your leaders and surface their pet ideas before building strategy, so reviews don't become fruit rejection.

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Marketing4 steps

The Ops Cadence Spreadsheet

A rocks-and-pebbles spreadsheet that assigns every account task a defined weekly/biweekly/monthly rhythm

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Communication3 steps

The Pixar Career Story Template

Distill your career into a seven-line Pixar-style story that intrigues interviewers and clarifies your direction

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Self-Mastery5 steps

The Product Owner Escape Ladder

Five moves to climb out of the order-taker trap without quitting first

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Marketing4 steps

The Signs of Life Test

Spend a tiny budget on a new platform to detect a positive signal before committing to a full campaign

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Leadership3 steps

The Three-Hire Performance Team Sequence

Build a paid team in order: data-driven generalist, then creative, then a dedicated data scientist

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Marketing3 steps

The True Competition Metric

Use auction-insights math to tell a genuine competitive threat from a harmless close-variant accident

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Communication5 steps

The Tuning Fork Silent Read

Don't ask what people think — put something concrete in front of them and force a live, in-room read.

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Leadership5 steps

The Unsell Email

At offer stage, email the candidate the eight worst truths about the job — then see if they still say yes.

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Communication5 steps

The Value-Framed Product Résumé

Rewrite every bullet from process to problem, decision, and metric moved

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Entrepreneurship3 steps

Vertical AI Opportunity Finder

Build where the winning data is locked behind a company or industry's walls — foundation models won't go there.

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