🎖️ Military Tactics, PM Performance & Innovation

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Todays edition curated articles to help product leaders enable their product teams….

• Insight Execution Insights Framework

• Applying Military Tactics to Strategy Execution

• 5 ways product leaders can create a culture of innovation

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Shane Drumm, newsletter editor

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📏How to Evaluate & Communicate PM Performance

Shreyas shares his story on X from a calibration meeting where in his company they assessed PMs and where they are in the PM career ladder.

3min read on X thread by Shreyas

Further reading though you can see the template below and access it in the link below the image…

Google Doc version of the template

11min Youtube video by Shreyas

WEEKLY TOP PICKS for Product Leaders

🏗️ Be fundamentally different, not incrementally better

In competitive markets, merely improving incrementally on existing solutions isn’t enough. Strive to be fundamentally different by reinventing or creating new categories.

Some really good product discovery advice

• Using Sean Ellis Score to measure product market fit

• How to learn from strongest customers

• Simply the best user research technique

• How to identify deep user pain points

• Why you need to articulate clear hypothesis

1 hour 35 mins from Lennys Podcast

🎖️ Applying Military Tactics to Strategy Execution

Why you should apply military tactics to strategy execution that will solve all of your problems like..

• Team execution of strategy

• Lack of alignment from leadership to teams

• Giving too much autonomy to people

67mins Podcast by Product Thinking with Melissa Perri

🚚 Drive change without overwhelming their teams.

How facilitators can balance improvement enthusiasm with team readiness, and why involving the team in the change process is crucial.

13min Podcast by Scrum Master Toolbox

🛴5 ways product leaders can create a culture of innovation

#1 - Use trust to empower product teams

#2 - Encourage quick action on ideas

#3 - Measure your innovation approach

#4 - Don’t focus on the fear of failure

#5 - Plan for the future by learning from the past

7min read from Product Led Alliance

Golden Oldie

🌎 A Product Leader’s Top 3 Learnings from Product World 2024

#1 – The best product and engineering teams create shared accountability

#2 – Successful execution requires a thoughtful strategy

#3 – Expect the unexpected and learn to adapt

5min Read from Product Plan

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