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“Oh, I mean, I saw that all the time, the work I did at pretty much every company. And again, I've been guilty of this myself, where I think typically the type of situation where I have seen this, as an example, is you are trying to prioritize the next quarter.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“Like this team is always slow, right? And so you put the bandaid, but the bandaid doesn't work.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“I suspect this is going to be helpful to a lot of product managers and even non-product managers.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“I was in meetings with Larry, Sergey, Eric Schmidt. And I think I particularly, if I were to pick one thing, I really appreciated Larry's strategic insight and particularly his ability to simulate the future to make better decisions.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“He's just a great marketer and um i just learned a lot about how to think about talking about the product in terms that uh you know again obvious stuff but talking about product in terms that customers really understand and then sometimes emphasizing things that we as product people might not think are really important and because maybe we didn't spend much time on building it And we want to talk about things that we spent a lot of time that are sort of truly innovative, etc, etc.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“Can I bring up this tiger? And all of a sudden it became okay for people to bring those things up, which I think is perhaps the best part about a premortem is that shared vocabulary.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Now, of course, there's the other side of it, which is I think Google missed out on some trends simply because of this filter or this high bar where sometimes it's not clear if something is a hundred million dollar opportunity or a billion dollar opportunity.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“The point is to identify threats that we are not talking about openly or that we might just be missing.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“In fact, it is obvious to team members, some team members, but the problem is that they perhaps haven't created that psychological safety and that vocabulary to be able to talk about it in an objective way and to decide with intent, are we going to solve for this or not?”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“I do not recommend trying to quantify opportunity costs because it's a lost cause.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I realized that I would never be a great engineer, that I would never be a top 10% engineer because I saw those engineers and the fortune of working with them.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“Instead, you are thinking, is this the best use of my time? And it's a subtle but profound shift in our thinking, because when we think about opportunity cost, we will pick certain things that we would have never picked if we just had the ROI mindset.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“Or like that is the more often the cases, the reason we are misaligned is because we don't know what the strategy is.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“But there are many examples. And something I realized is that the same type of of activity can actually be either an l task or an n task or an o task so what's an example so say like a classic pm task activity of filing a bug report right and so many companies have these bug templates etc etc right like that you use to file a bug report Well, it turns out that filing a bug report, depending on the situation, depending on what type of bug it is, can actually be an L task, high leverage task.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast