Every day, I see individuals and teams struggle with connecting product work to the big picture, and I keep coming back to a fundamental flaw in how Product Strategy is taught.
The perils of being predictable.
I had to stop following popular design leadership advice to actually lead
All business rules are made up–just like design. Remaking the rules opens the gates to new possibilities.
Understanding business isn't about advancing your career – it's about knowing when to walk away and having the power to do it.
There’s a format of storytelling in business that has been very successful for decision-making. Since hiring is a decision-making meeting, try incorporating the SCR format of storytelling.
To evaluate the overall health of a company, business leaders objectives, measures, and targets are set across four categories of health, with each one focusing on a different aspect of the company.
Understand when your sales pitch for design is working, when it's not, and what do about it.
By understanding the wants and needs of those you work with, you can become influential as a designer
Great design leaders are those who intentionally create multiple paths to success.
For design leaders, reading the room is everything. While conventional wisdom suggests that positioning drives perception, the reality for design teams is often reversed: your ability to read and respond to shifting stakeholder perceptions should drive your positioning decisions.
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Trying to convert powerful skeptics into design believers takes a lot of emotional energy. There's a more practical, and dare I say it, more strategic way make it worth your while.
Two particularly powerful tools to validate your design choices and predict your impact are correlation and linear regression analysis.