🎾 Tips for Senior PM Mastery, Focus Tips, Hollywood Presentations & 7-Part Storytelling Framework
🎾 Tips for Senior PM Mastery, Focus Tips, Hollywood Presentations & 7-Part Storytelling Framework
+ 2 great new AI prompts for you
Estimated read time: 2 minuts 37 seconds.
This is Sunday 1-1-2-3 with George.
Welcome to the 91st edition.
Today we have:
The Surprising Skills That Help You Succeed in Your Product Management Career As You Get More Senior
PM Skill Growth: How To Quickly Improve Focus + Hollywood Tips For Presentations
7-Part Storytelling Formula Is One of the Most Powerful Persuasion Tools Ever Created (Used by Apple)
High Performers Escalate Clearly
Twitter’s UX for Long-Form Content Is a Classic Design Fail
+ 2 great new AI prompts for you
💾 Surprising Skills That Help You Succeed in Your Product Management Career As You Get More Senior
Jackie Bavaro's article is like a friendly chat with a mentor, spilling the secrets to climbing the ladder in product management. She talks about growing in your role, not just by taking on more tasks but by diving into complexity and ambiguity. And yes, she admits, that means making tough calls and not always pleasing everyone.
If you've got your eye on leadership, she warns, things get even trickier. You'll have more on your plate and less time to do it. But don't let that scare you. Jackie shares that she's learned to see these challenges as a sign she's tackling big problems.
She gets real about trust, too. You've got to earn it. How?
Make wise decisions
Keep people in the loop
Follow through on your word.
And if you think you'll hand over recruiting to someone else once you're up the ranks, think again. Jackie found out that she had to take care of it all herself.
Her advice doesn't stop there.
She nudges you to pick up side projects that could boost your career. Help your peers, team up with your boss, or even volunteer for the tedious stuff that gets you in the room with the higher-ups.
Read more here:
☕️ PM Skill Growth: How To Quickly Improve Focus + Hollywood Tips For Presentations
🍪 Quick Bites
🤖 AI Corner
Via Negativa Prompt
TASK = Apply the principles of Via Negativa to help me analyze the essential and non-essential elements of my INPUT. The input may be business product, service offering, content, or anything else.
Summary of Via Negativa: Remove non-essentials. Reduce complexity. Cut out ambiguities. De-clutter. Define boundaries. Eliminate distractions.
GOAL = To become simpler, clearer, more efficient, and better aligned with the purpose in the input. Less is often more when it comes to success.
INPUT = {PASTE OR ATTACH YOUR INPUT HERE}
Pioneers/Migrators/Settlers Map Generator/Analyzer
COMPANY = Business coach for entrepreneurs
ASSISTANT = Act as a brilliant business strategist consultant and expert in Blue Ocean thinking. You are a visionary, an innovator, with unique and novel ideas that others don't think of. You excel in sales, marketing, and competitive analysis.
TASK = For COMPANY, please ideate on 12 potential growth projects using the Pioneer-Migrator-Settler (PMS) Map framework in the Blue Ocean strategy. Get creative. Think out of the box. You're an expert and you'll do solid and innovative work work, for sure. Don't waste time with the obvious. Make 3 ideas creative, 3 weird, 3 compelling, and 3 novel and unexpected.
PMS Map = A 3-by-2 matrix where each row represents a the level of innovation in a business category - pioneers, migrators, and settlers. Pioneers are blue ocean offerings, settlers are me-too businesses in the red ocean, and migrators are in between – they may offer the customer more value, but don’t alter the industry’s basic shape.
Analyze the results: Ideally, a company should have a healthy mix of all three categories, with settlers and migrators serving as profit centers, and pioneers leading the company's future growth. Suggest a brief plan how to drive COMPANY to lift success prospects by creating new market space and driving profitable growth.
(Learned both of these from Rob Lennon)
That's a wrap for today. Stay focused and see you next week! If you want more, be sure to follow me on Twitter (@nurijanian)
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Who's George?
I’m an underdog product manager.
Product management in New Zealand (where I live) is still a relatively immature discipline. I also came into it late via data science and UX. I may be older than others, but I often feel like a rookie.
To become better at my craft, I learn and explore new ideas relentlessly.
Then I share high-quality, tried-and-true ideas that can be used right away.
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— George.