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4. Don't Confuse Micromanagement with Miscommunication: Contextualize why it needs to be done in the first place.

At Stripe, we talk about product “shaping,” ... the process of creating a rough solution to a concrete user problem — it fills the space between the broad strategy and the detailed product specification, or the PRD.

Your team dynamic is something you can always affect, even if you have no meaningful influence over the major strategic decisions of an organization.

4. Strategic Partnering - Company is experiencing rocketship growth, and you're looking to bolster your moat with product bets while designing an organization that will sustain your growth. Your CPO will help set and reinforce that culture for your product organization.Your CPO will take your moonshot vision and lay out the 5 year plan to it,... See more

2. Establish a culture of reflection3. Create more accountability

You’re a hammer: You live and you die based on your ability to convince other people to do what you need them to do for the good of the product. A hammer swings and builds -- push your team to ship.

A development paradigm that can be construed from the outside as setting great store by speed—or, I suppose, velocity—is invariably going to be under continuous political and economic pressure to accelerate.