Emilie Kormienko
@emiliekormienko
community designer @startupy.
Emilie Kormienko
Community programs should focus on creating value and belonging for members, while also creating value and results for the business. A good way to structure and measure your community strategy involves three levels: business, community, and tactical. Each of these will have distinct goals and measures for tracking success.
David Spinks • The Business of Belonging: How to Make Community your Competitive Advantage
Qualities of great strategy: p roblem-oriented: clearly identifies the problem; i nsight-driven: rooted in insights, both quantitative and qualitative; actionable: outlines concrete actions/investments that will solve this problem; focused: has a small number of high-leverage bets; cohesive: create a clear path from the problem to the solution.
Lenny Rachitsky • Getting better at product strategy
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Harvard Business Review • 4 Steps to Beating Burnout
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Ask too much of them and they’ll get bored and go elsewhere; ask too little of them and you’ll leave them frustratingly unfulfilled.
Simon McCade • 4 user onboarding strategies to help you convert more users and reduce churn | Blog | Simon McCade | Product Designer for Tech Companies | Bristol
More effort is wasted doing things that don't matter than is wasted doing things inefficiently. And if that is the case, elimination is a more useful skill than optimization. I am reminded of the famous Peter Drucker quote, “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
James Clear • The Ultimate Productivity Hack Is Saying No
Most frequently valued PM skills: Communication, execution, product sense. Least frequently valued PM skills: Design/UX, empathy, raw intelligence.
Lenny Rachitsky • A comprehensive survey of Product Management
The community life cycle goes through the seed phase (beginnings of the community where you design and craft the experience), growth phase (community starts to organically grow and engage), maturity (the community becomes well-established), and pollination (the community breaks down into subcommunities).