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522: Stop the stupid using proactive problem solving – with Doug Hall

Product Innovation Educators

hours daily fixing problems, with 75% of issues stemming from broken systems rather than employee mistakes. Even more concerning, products typically lose 50% of their innovative value during development as unique ideas get compromised to fit existing systems. Doug shared that the average manager wastes 3.5

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Three Reasons to Insist on Outcome-Based Planning

The Product Coalition

When I was Head of Product at eBay, one of my primary responsibilities was to lead and build eBay’s new catalog system. We spent months defining how the new catalog system should work. I’ll just say that it was a totally different concept than the existing system’s one. That’s just one of the challenges we had.

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520: The future of AI in product management – with Mike Todasco

Product Innovation Educators

He explains that their approach to innovation deliberately avoided the common pitfall of creating a two-tiered system where only designated “innovators” were responsible for new ideas. Creating an Inclusive Innovation Environment The foundation of PayPal’s innovation success rested on a culture of trust and autonomy.

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These “Best Practices” Are Slowly Killing Your Product

The Product Guy

If your meetings are full of nodding heads and no pushback, youre not making progressyoure just circling the familiar. Every meeting becomes a performance review rather than a space for creative problem-solving. Innovation thrives when teams feel empowered to say, What if were wrong? and pursue the answers.

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Product manager is an unfair role. So work unfairly.

Lenny Rachitsky

He’s an individual contributor (IC) PM who leverages AI tools and a suite of productivity systems to get more done with fewer resources (and management layers). 🤠 Work unfairly: Instead of adding action items from meetings to a to-do list, do the action items live in the meeting. With everyone watching.

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The application of Persuasive and Behavioral Techniques to Improve Saving Habits

UX Planet

We can create systems that gently sway judgments and match actions with long-term objectives to combatthis. Social proof can also be in the form of ratings & reviews as reviews from existingusers. As we know from usability heuristics, Users expect systems to be interactive and provide feedback based on theirusage.

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Product in Practice: Getting Started with Several APIs (And the Challenges I Faced)

Product Talk

This mostly worked, but it required a lot of administrative work to keep our systems in sync. There were dozens more that required that we make changes in all of our systems. At the heart of all of my administrative troubles was the need to move data in between disparate systems and to make sure that all of these systems were in sync.