Kassen Qian

Another thing is a sense of urgency. The company is especially dedicated to moving very, very fast .

Communication & Visibility: You build relationships that help the team get things done. You ensure the product’s story is told, and understood, internally and externally. You create collateral that can be leveraged by GTM teams.

5. Make Team Management Your Highest Priority Product: To be a good product team manager, you need to have been a successful product manager first. "As a group product manager, my job is to help PMs own their ideas, work with stakeholders, get people on board and amplify their insights. Our product managers are my products."

Six concrete tactics product leaders can use to not just build remarkable products, but talented product managers:

3. Empowered Product Teams: in strong product companies, teams are instead given problems to solve, rather than features to build, and most important, they are empowered to solve those problems in the best way they see fit.

0/ The Chief of Staff role has reached a tipping point, from startups to trillion-dollar companies. I've talked to ~100 CEOs, from @NotionHQ, @Patreon, @blendlabsinc, @benchling and more, all asking same q: How should I hire a chief of staff? Here's what I tell them 🧵

" Brian and most everyone at the company is comfortable failing publicly , which I admire. But it’s definitely a challenge for us: figuring out how to be more successful merging that vision-oriented approach with an organizational muscle that helps us reduce failure."

The way you get things done is very relationship-driven at our company. So you have to be able to build influence.