Sun.Jan 20, 2019

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Hot Potatoes: How to handle the thing that causes everyone else to quit

The Product Guy

Being a Product Manager is never clear, and never simple. It’s easy to have projects we love, but what happens when the worst, most convoluted project gets dumped in your lap? This talk goes over things you can do to stabilize a project while staying sane. In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Felix Sargent, lead a conversation on this topic.

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How the Price of Victory led to Brexit

The Product Coalition

And what can Product Managers learn from it How to lose a Referendum by Jason Farrell and Paul Goldsmith is a darn book about the multiple reasons that led to one of this decade’s highly publicized and stomach churning debacle in the western world. It states that the reasons for the victorious (by a small margin) VOTE LEAVE campaign in Britain were not just due to the notorious propaganda created by a few individuals (remember Dominic Cummings), but go way back to the era immediately following t

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Reviving the Handwritten Thank-You Note: Tips, Tools, and a 4-Sentence Template

Atomic Spin PM

I’m pretty sure you already think handwriting thank-you notes is a good move. So why don’t you more often? Does it seem old-fashioned? Too much work? Overly time-consuming? Not sure what to say? Do you associate it with notes you had send to your aunt, thanking her for your itchy birthday socks? Those are the same reasons I had for not writing more notes.