Skills

Thread by @shreyas: Let’s talk about High Agency: an attitude I’ve seen in every successful product manager & leader I’ve known. Some pplorn/raised with High Agency. It can also be developed later in life. High agency is a prerequisite for making a p…

@shreyas: As they grow in size, teams within megacorps and startups tend to implicitly bias more towards Project Thinking and not enough Product Thinking. Product Thinking is a mindset and a process that, once you se...…

The key elements of product sense are empathy, domain knowledge, and creativity. Shreyas Doshi, product lead at Stripe, and I discuss how to improve the elusive "product sense," a relevant skill to all product managers.

Creating timeless products requires timeless insights. In this exclusive session, @Shreyas Doshi shares the mental models required to build great products, followed by a chat with Kunal Shah where they reveal the insights they rely on the most. Don’t lose track: 00:00 - Opening 00:00:12 - Product Sense Workshop 01:07:20 - Kunal in conversation with Shreyas 01:25:33 - Audience Q&A Follow Shreyas on Twitter: https://twitter.com/shreyas Feel less guilty about your social media addiction. Make it rewarding by following us here: Instagram: https://bit.ly/3kothCv Twitter: https://bit.ly/2Hvgsrl Facebook: https://bit.ly/3mb4EcT — Suggested reading: - Art or Science: https://twitter.com/shreyas/status/1377036922581753859 - Product Sense: https://blog.tryexponent.com/improve-your-product-sense/ - Domain knowledge, domain expertise, domain insight: https://twitter.com/shreyas/status/1438004497775677444 Optional reading: - Gorilla taxes and how startups can beat megacorps: https://twitter.com/shreyas/status/1332065861813694465 - Ogilvy on Research: https://twitter.com/shreyas/status/1443212585365499908 - Pooh-poohing instinct & creativity: https://twitter.com/shreyas/status/1443355828799492100 - Creativity culture: https://twitter.com/shreyas/status/1428175559696084997 - 10-30-50 PM: https://blog.tryexponent.com/10-30-50-product-management/ - Good product managers, Great product managers: https://twitter.com/shreyas/status/1249039638829793280 - Product focused company: https://twitter.com/shreyas/status/1312254112092712960 - Consumer products are hard (part 1): https://twitter.com/shreyas/status/1388173045840314369 - Consumer products are hard (part 2): https://twitter.com/shreyas/status/1271240038399918080

Product managers require a diverse set of skills to excel at their role, including design, technical, analytical, communication, and more. Yet there is one skill that I find is often underrated but

While product managers may not build the actual product, they do produce something very tangible for a team: decisions.