Tag: playing to win
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Boost Your Product Management Skills Through Strategy, Planning, and OKRs
Product Managers are expected to have a firm grasp of strategy, and use strategic thinking to guide their choices. At the same time, they’re expected to be able to negotiate and plan with UX and Engineering to understand how long things will take, and when they can make commitments for releases.
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Maximize Your Strategy Design: 5 Concepts You Can’t Afford to Confuse
People refer to many things as “strategy,” and I’ve found it’s essential to be clear and consistent with your definitions. Here are five definitions I’ve evolved and tested over time, and found helpful to baseline with your teams, and one simple way to win.
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3 Unconventional & Game-Changing Ways Product Managers Can Boost Their Effectiveness Through Strategy
Organizations need their Product people to: Be more effective, work together in ways that boost team collaboration Make smarter choices with their products and services to provide creative solutions to their customers Deliver on their organization’s most mission-critical goals. Strategy is the key to achieving all 3.
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A Top Strategy Expert Shares 4 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Blame Execution for Bad Results
Even this group knows their plan didn’t fail because of bad execution. Imagine via Midjourney. “We had a great strategy, we just didn’t execute.” How many times have you heard that? History is littered with spectacular “execution” failures, like Webvan, or Pets.com (Remember that sock puppet?). And how often have you heard leaders tell their people to “stay heads-down…
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How Uber’s Disruptive Strategy Took Over the Taxi Industry
Photo by Etkin Celep: https://www.pexels.com/photo/yellow-taxi-driving-under-a-concrete-bridge-12707985/ Reverse-engineering the client-centric & tech-enabled strategy that took on entrenched interests and established an entirely new way of working The New York City pre-Uber taxi landscape For many years, evenings out on the town in New York City always ended with an iconic yellow cab ride home. You stood on a street…
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