Product Management

most companies today talk about product strategy, but for most of them it is much easier to continue to give allocations to the various stakeholders and just let them decide what they each need. This is sometimes referred to as “peanut butter product strategy” as in spreading the resources very thinly over the company, doing many things but nothing

5. Be data-driven. Always have success metrics, track them, and try to move them in the right direction with our actions.

Planning is hard because it's inherently different from other exercises your organization takes on . Rather than focusing on day-to-day execution, it requires a large number of people to think about a variety of possible futures, align on one single future, and then plot a concrete course to get there. Taking this on for your own personal goals (f

Pinpoint your highest-impact bets, then go all in. Bold ideas need bold resourcing.

Tech-enabled Network of Teams over Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Airbnb wants its leaders to be more than managers, they want them to be creators. But it results in a much more top-down company.