Peter Swanson
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Peter Swanson
Include your team’s mission and/or vision in every strategy document.In kick-off meetings, find opportunities to remind the team how this random project enables the team/company to come closer to its mission.At the top of your roadmap documents, include your team Vision or Mission.
Lenny Rachitsky • 14 Habits of Highly Effective Product Managers
“Vision is the bottleneck of talent.
Most talent is wasted because people do not clearly know what they want. It’s not a lack of effort, but a lack of direction.
There are many capable people in the world, but relatively few that focus on what matters.”
Most talent is wasted because people do not clearly know what they want. It’s not a lack of effort, but a lack of direction.
There are many capable people in the world, but relatively few that focus on what matters.”
James Clear • 3-2-1: On patience, vision, and emphasizing joy
The problem you solve for customers is increasingly one they can’t even articulate for themselves . The ones that are easy to understand have already been built and funded over the last 20 years. Building something of true excellence will require a hungrier engagement with the world
Evan Armstrong • Want to Build? Technical Excellence Won’t Be Enough.
“You can’t talk butterfly language with caterpillar people.”
Trish Deseine
"I don't need time. What I need is a deadline." — Duke Ellington
The hard part about figuring out what customers want is figuring out that you need to figure it out
Nobody wants your product until they want what it enables them to do. To get this clarity about what someone wants to be able to do, you need to understand the struggle that caused them to shape that idea and motivation of an unmet goal. If you can uncover that, you have a good bet of solving the “right” problem.