Peter Swanson
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Peter Swanson
- Include your team’s mission and/or vision in every strategy document.In kick-off meetings, find opportunities to remind the team how this random project enables the team/company to come closer to its mission.At the top of your roadmap documents, include your team Vision or Mission.
from 14 Habits of Highly Effective Product Managers by Lenny Rachitsky
- “Vision is the bottleneck of talent.
Most talent is wasted because people do not clearly know what they want. It’s not a lack of effort, but a lack of direction.
There are many capable people in the world, but relatively few that focus on what matters.”from 3-2-1: On patience, vision, and emphasizing joy by James Clear
- The problem you solve for customers is increasingly one they can’t even articulate for themselves . The ones that are easy to understand have already been built and funded over the last 20 years. Building something of true excellence will require a hungrier engagement with the world
from Want to Build? Technical Excellence Won’t Be Enough. by Evan Armstrong
- The hard part about figuring out what customers want is figuring out that you need to figure it out
Nobody wants your product until they want what it enables them to do. To get this clarity about what someone wants to be able to do, you need to understand the struggle that caused them to shape that idea and motivation of an unmet goal. If you can uncover that, you have a good bet of solving the “right” problem.
from What is the “right” problem to solve?
- Ask it about music, and it can write you lyrics in the style of whoever you’d like. But it’s never listened to a great song, never heard one right when it needed to be heard.
- The robot was quite good at copying my style, but much less good at writing anything meaningful. It could predict which words I would be most likely to use but it couldn’t make an original argument for me. Using the robot made me think a lot about the nature of writing and what goes in to its peculiar form of labor. AI tools fundamentally promise t... See more
from My writing robot by Kyle Chayka
It all starts with your Vision. The Vision must be regarded as the central aim that enrolls the support of all your team members. It inspires them to do the things they have to do to meet their own individual goals.
from Instant Team Building: How to Build and Sustain a Winning Team for Business Success (Instant Success Series) by Bradley J Sugars
it’s critical that your entire team identifies with the Vision Statement and accepts it as the team’s vision too. Whenever I recruit new team members, the very first thing I discuss with them is our vision. I let them know what we are striving for. If they can’t identify with it, I tell them they’re welcome to leave then and there.
from Instant Team Building: How to Build and Sustain a Winning Team for Business Success (Instant Success Series) by Bradley J Sugars