The Product Coalition

APRIL 8, 2022

Will they feel comfortable reporting to a younger manager? Discomfort is part of the job, and so is learning how to deal with people who have backgrounds different from yours. It’s always a bit odd to me that when I walk in the door, you look a little, let’s just say, taken aback.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 20, 2018

They streamline the workflows, help people make fewer mistakes and bring some degree of comfort – having a good set of processes can create the sense that work has already begun to proceed. In this way, processes are usually comfortable, in the sense that they are institutional habits. You did your job, then moved the task to QA.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 11, 2020

After all, research consistently shows that humans are wired for seeking comfort, safety, and loss aversion. Here are a few thoughts for how product managers – especially those in an agile development environment – can embrace uncertainty and live with the inevitable discomfort. Uncertainty is uncomfortable.

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The Product Cafe

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

🚀 Embrace the Impact-Focused Approach Focusing on an impact-focused journey may nudge you out of your comfort zone. It's about acknowledging the uncomfortable uncertainties that come with this approach and recognizing that the benefits far outweigh the discomfort. You may ask how to get started, here’s your answer!

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People-First Product Leadership

JUNE 25, 2023

Instead encourage your team and yourself to tackle unknowns and to quote Barry O'Reilly - get comfortable being uncomfortable. Maybe then I shouldn’t have been surprised when a majority of the keynote speakers also mentioned imposter syndrome during their talks. It wasn’t planned. It just happened that way.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Matt LeMay tells the story of a meeting he had with author and publisher Mike Shatzkin a long time ago: “I was just out of college, and I was trying to describe what I do. He had a moment of recognition, slammed his hand down on the table, and said, ‘synthesis and articulation, that’s what you do’. I’ll never forget it.”. Why One Page, One Hour?

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Mind the Product

JULY 12, 2018

We have to be comfortable with discomfort and focused on helping the customer. This week’s Product Warrior podcast, supported by Mind The Product, discusses the concept of the Lean methodology and helping teams adopt an experimental approach. He writes articles and e-books at [link]. Key Lean principles.

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Dear Strategy

MAY 21, 2018

Again, I know it, I can prove it, and, even if the results weren’t exactly what I wanted to achieve, I can draw some level of comfort from the fact that they did in fact occur. . Risk equals fear, and fear equals discomfort. Dear Strategy: “Why is ‘strategy’ such an uncomfortable word?”. So what exactly is so scary about strategy?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 2, 2019

Becoming better than the sum of all parts Getting comfortable in your new, smaller PM shoes starts with understanding that it’s ok to feel, at least a little, uncomfortable in them. Also, at no point should discomfort with less responsibility turn into bad feelings for the people that you now share it with.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

As we get more comfortable, we keep doing it to get the same positive outcome. Because of the benefit, it doesn’t seem worth the effort or discomfort to switch things up. James Clear’s 2018 book Atomic Habits explains that our atomic habits are created as a coping mechanism. We also bring along our habits from previous jobs.

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DISQO

JULY 22, 2018

In fact, you should be careful of feeling too comfortable. Many companies operate on the ends of the ‘fight or flight’ spectrum: either they encourage unnecessarily direct communication that merely benefits the most extroverted individuals or they avoid any discomfort and difficult decisions rarely get made. That’s no longer the case.

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Atomic Spin PM

JULY 18, 2019

It’s Not About Having All the Answers It’s comforting to believe that all of the questions have been asked and all of the answers are known before you size and start to work. When the inevitable discomfort arises, resist the urge to revert to the old way. And a few more. They size the story. and to size the story.

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Atomic Spin PM

JULY 18, 2019

It’s Not About Having All the Answers It’s comforting to believe that all of the questions have been asked and all of the answers are known before you size and start to work. When the inevitable discomfort arises, resist the urge to revert to the old way. And a few more. They size the story. and to size the story.

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

JUNE 19, 2019

It’s comfortable. Internal triggers are usually feelings towards situations or issues, being that the most common ones are negative emotions, such as discomfort or stress. I can order transportation from pretty much anywhere, I can order any kind of food, check for my city’s event agenda. Let’s not even get into that. Super rude.

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DISQO

JULY 22, 2018

In fact, you should be careful of feeling too comfortable. Many companies operate on the ends of the ‘fight or flight’ spectrum: either they encourage unnecessarily direct communication that merely benefits the most extroverted individuals or they avoid any discomfort and difficult decisions rarely get made. That’s no longer the case.

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DISQO

JULY 22, 2018

In fact, you should be careful of feeling too comfortable. Many companies operate on the ends of the ‘fight or flight’ spectrum: either they encourage unnecessarily direct communication that merely benefits the most extroverted individuals or they avoid any discomfort and difficult decisions rarely get made. That’s no longer the case.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 18, 2020

From screening to on-site meeting, you’re in for what could be a months-long process. Let that sink in, then let your heartbeat return to normal - you can prepare. Stage 1: Screening Most data science hires will go through both a technical and a behavioral screening. Both the coding challenge (ex. Both are meant to weed out inflated resumes.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 28, 2021

Giving Productive Feedback An awkward discomfort that comes with the territory of management is giving productive performance-based feedback to their teams. Many engineering managers first transition into their roles as former individual contributors. Most find the experience of becoming in charge of former colleagues rather strange.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2022

At the risk of ignoring complexity, I’ll note that the boundaries between these seven values (time, money, social capital, comfort, certainty, novelty, ethics) can be murky. I stand out (or fit in) amongst my peers more Comfort? —?Reduce If you neglect Product Market Fit, your worst fears will come true. Live Better”.

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Andrew Chen

OCTOBER 31, 2016

If a candidate is out there googling answers to “trick” interview questions, then they’re missing out on an opportunity to showcase their own unique way of combining creativity with numbers. Weird” interview questions let you out to roam beyond the constraints of the role in front of you. All you have is a blueprint of the bridge. Car length?

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Atlassian

JANUARY 25, 2022

Asking people to provide input asynchronously in a tool like Confluence allows everyone the space to work in a way that’s comfortable for them. But true success and breakthrough innovation involves discomfort. Discomfort pushes you to grow. 10 benefits of teamwork. Groups are better at problem solving.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The VR technology is comfortable for the consumer: (User Comfort: the human factors of virtual environments, wearing headsets, and using physical controllers do not impact the experience.). It’s no secret that it can be hard to evaluate physical products online effectively.

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Mind the Product

MAY 6, 2020

We kicked off these conversations with a focus on page templates, encouraging people to be comfortable with new layout features such as single-columns and shorter line length. Here, the agency’s UX and Content Strategy Manager Nicola O’Connor and Senior Designer Daniel Cullinan talk us through their process. The Approach.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

I believe the answer is to use a test-and-learn approach to create a minimum lovable product (MLP) product – or the version of a new product a business can launch to create customer love with the least amount of effort and expense. The test-and-learn approach my colleagues at Moonshot and I use is an adaptation of the Design Sprint.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 13, 2020

I’ve helped a number of organisations facilitate ‘ShipIt’ style hackathons and there’s generally a common discomfort about giving people the freedom to work on whatever they want. These regions all over the world are known to have some of the highest biodiversity ?—?they The same happens with innovation. it’s part of the process.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 25, 2019

The Key Skill For Success In Product Management SUCCESS TAKES TIME Product Management career entry and long-term success can be challenging. Careers are long and can be filled with ups and downs. Like many, I’ve read the articles and seen the videos of the ten or so genius tech founders we all hear about repeatedly.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 10, 2023

After almost 11 hours of racing, the leading Audi and Porsche LMP1 cars are just seconds apart, trading the lead with every pit stop. LMP1 stands for Le Mans Prototype Class 1 , the fastest of the four Le Mans racing classes. The top LMP1 cars are capable of circling the long, winding 8.47 Formula 1 is my favorite racing series.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Why these questions should be asked Feedback, performance, and competitor relations Feelings (pride or jealousy) about own company and others Relevance of important values and aspirations Exact choices: Extract the choices that your company makes as attributes What does the company do?

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DISQO

AUGUST 4, 2020

While more conversations around racial justice are happening more frequently among friends and family members, our findings also revealed that people are far less likely to feel comfortable discussing those issues at work or with their colleagues. . Using Alpha’s rapid consumer feedback platform, we surveyed more than 440 U.S.

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DISQO

AUGUST 4, 2020

While more conversations around racial justice are happening more frequently among friends and family members, our findings also revealed that people are far less likely to feel comfortable discussing those issues at work or with their colleagues. . Using Alpha’s rapid consumer feedback platform, we surveyed more than 440 U.S.

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DISQO

AUGUST 4, 2020

While more conversations around racial justice are happening more frequently among friends and family members, our findings also revealed that people are far less likely to feel comfortable discussing those issues at work or with their colleagues. . Using Alpha’s rapid consumer feedback platform, we surveyed more than 440 U.S.

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