Too much focus is put on improving product managers as individuals - skills, mindset, development. This is local optimization. Good #ProductManagement requires system thinking. The biggest success factor is the mindset of the org.
We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the 2023 Ally of the Year! ⭐ Adam Jordan, Andrew Brown, Emma Gray, Ganesh Kumar, Jakub Misiorny, Kevin Traynor, Nathan Harris, Sat Gainda, Tim Hatton and
Wendy Sabaroche! Congratulations! 👏
Really chuffed to be at tonight’s #ExperimentationElite Awards. We are nominated in the Agency Experimenter of The Year and Financial Services Experimentation Campaign categories.
Here's hoping we are successful! 🤞 🤞 🤞 #EXelite22buff.ly/3Lv3Woj
Last night, I had a nightmare I arrived @PrufrockCoffee, found it had suddenly closed and was now an ugly bookshop selling not very nice tea and coffee and cakes with only nuts in so my husband couldn’t have any.
I was livid with rage at this series of events (in my dream)
Managing up: 1) Understand what your managers are optimizing for 2) try to articulate it as a goal (eg in OKR format), even if they don't 3) Demonstrate that what you are suggesting will help achieve the goal.
#productmanagement#influence
Finding it hard to experiment? It could be that you’re not using evidence efficiently. In this eBook I explain how to obtain evidence quickly using 28 idea validation techniques. No more battle of opinions.
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How are effects of online A/B tests distributed? How often are they not significant? Does achieving significance guarantee meaningful business impact?
We answer these questions in our new paper, “False Discovery in A/B Testing”, recently out in Management Science >>
This person is so lucky they don’t live in London, Cambridge or Oxford:
This is like the bike equivalent of dangling your keys outside your letter box and with a note saying you’ll be on holiday.
@RUSHHairBeauty your customer service is APPALLING.
You closed the salon I was booked at, and not only didn’t contact me but actually wrote me an email confirming the appointment.
I turned up today and the number on the door redirects to hackney.
ANGRY doesn’t cover it!
Going forwards I’m going to actively avoid your salons and discourage anyone I know from using your salons.
I’m not surprised you had to close half your salons if service is this bad you deserve to lose customers.
So, why didn’t they cast Vanessa Kirby instead of Emma Stone in Cruella?
She could do the accent better…. And makes a convincing potentially more relative of Emma Thompson.
Putt's Law: "Technology is dominated by two types of people, those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand."
h/t @miniver