Thought provoking

At Apple, as at Google, a boss’s ability to achieve results had a lot more to do with listening and seeking to understand than it did with telling people what to do; more to do with debating than directing; more to do with pushing people to decide than with being the decider; more to do with persuading than with giving orders; more to do with learn... See more

But ideas are cheap . The real meat of PM is unpacking and mitigating risk.

Taking the idea, doing adequate problem and solution discovery, and working with engineering & design to get the thing shipped is the hard part.

Great artists don’t study art history to figure out what art to create. Great founders don’t analyze the market to figure out what product to build.

We are in an age of noise.

The frameworks that got us here, of jobs-to-be-done or product-market fit, will be insufficient going forward. For founders to have extraordinary outcomes, they will have to find alpha in markets that aren’t easily understood.

Which is to say, technology alone won’t be enough. The other essential ingredient will be taste.... See more