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3. Make Communication Your Path to Ownership : Communication is ... an opportunity to take or give ownership. Iterate how you communicate as much as it takes for everyone to understand the critical information.

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

Thinking about team management as a product: - Set up advanced listening mechanisms: help your PMs become better listeners- Keep your feedback loops healthy at all costs: Establish a consistent set of group and one-on-one meetings, ideally early in the week to help set the tone and get the team on the same page.- Your team should have a purpose as... See more

You’re a super user: Eat your own dog food and talk to people who do too.

The flow: Think It = figure out what type of product we are building and why. Build It = create a minimum viable product that is ready for real users. Ship It = gradually roll out to 100% of all users, while measuring and improving. Tweak It = Continuously improve the product. This isn't really an end state; the product stays in Tweak It until it... See more

Musicians have sold $70M+ worth of NFTs to date. 63% of sales revenue came from independent/unsigned artists.

The absence of one or more is almost certainly correlated with weak product organizations.