Product Management
Simply breaking up a large organization into smaller units or creating autonomous teams is not sufficient to replicate a start-up culture. Urgency, accountability, and risk tolerance in start-ups are mindsets. Re-creating these mindsets inside an established company is challenging because they result partly from the unique pressures and circumstances under which start-ups operate. —
How Big Companies Can (and do) Innovate Like a Start-Up
Sales one-offs are crack cocaine: pleasure-inducing, habit-forming, and generating barely-plausible explanations of why every deal is the last one we’ll do custom work for.
The Slippery Slope of Sales-Led Development
Our brains are wired to quickly respond to stress via the fight-or-flight response. Stress evokes a chain reaction that triggers the amygdala, the area of the brain responsible for processing emotion, to send a distress signal to our hypothalamus, the command center for emotional responses. All of this happens prior to the signal reaching our prefrontal cortex, the area responsible for rational decision making. https://productcoalition.com/what-is-product-leadership-2b284441b56b
Dropbox wasn’t always a smooth ride, though nothing ever is at a rapidly growing company. Despite the bumps, helping the team scale with simple frameworks like this was the most illuminating and rewarding part
The most important thing Dropbox did to scale Product Management
Technology
Dating today is much like online shopping. Enabled by social platforms and apps, we browse endless options, compare their features and select the one that taps into our desires and perfectly fits our exact personal preferences. Are algorithms hacking our thoughts?
Chrome isn’t just a great browser. It’s also a great example of how a single product can challenge conventional wisdom and reshape how we think about the tools we use every day. From 0 to 70% Market Share: How Google Chrome Ate the Internet
Management and Leadership
We work with a broad range of people from different departments, and it’s only natural that we don’t always agree and sometimes clash. But constructively navigating conflict can be challenging.
DEALING WITH DIFFICULT STAKEHOLDERS AND TEAM MEMBERS
How Big Companies Can (and do) Innovate Like a Start-Up. Creative Construction is the process of sustaining and rejuvenating an existing organization’s innovative capabilities. “Creative construction requires a delicate balance of exploiting existing resources and capabilities without becoming imprisoned by them.”
OKRs make sure the company is staying ambitious, setting objectives that are measurable, and that everybody in the company knows the few things that are most important. Are you doing OKRs right?
