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Articles, books, & templates I highly recommend understand to maximize your output if you're an ambitious new Product Manager.

Matt Woods

What does a PM actually do?

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@shreyas: Product Management—in 1 tweet.⁠

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How To Get Into Product Management (And Thrive)⁠

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https://medium.com/@noah_weiss/10-traits-of-great-pms-a7776cd3d9cd⁠

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https://www.quora.com/What-distinguishes-the-Top-1-of-product-managers-from-the-Top-10/answer/Ian-McAllister?srid=3wR&st=ns⁠

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Communicate

Listen to get context from your team's experts.

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https://twitter.com/kevinyien/status/1321802360373563392?s=20⁠

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Set up customer feedback loops.

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Customer research is the ultimate growth hack⁠

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Make feedback normal.

Radical Candor

Write clearly.

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https://twitter.com/david_perell/status/1321656961264398336?s=20⁠

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https://blog.usejournal.com/writing-docs-at-amazon-e025808616bd⁠

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1-pager.

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Shape Up⁠

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Lenny's Airbnb template⁠

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Roadmap.

Present the plan.

Plan

Understand the fundamental levers of your business & product

Successful business

4 Fits:

https://brianbalfour.com/essays/hubspot-growth-framework-100m⁠

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Successful product

Understand the market

April Dunford Positioning

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https://review.firstround.com/how-superhuman-built-an-engine-to-find-product-market-fit⁠

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Understand retention

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https://www.reforge.com/blog/growth-metric-acquisition-monetization-virality⁠

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Hierarchy of Engagement, Expanded⁠

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Understand acquisition

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Growth Loops are the New Funnels⁠

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Product Channel Fit⁠

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Startups are cheaper to build, but more expensive to grow – here’s why⁠

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Lenny's how X got their first customers

Understand business model

Not sure where these fit yet

Top Growth concepts curated by Dan Hockenmaier:

https://twitter.com/danhockenmaier/status/1145416117667500032?s=20⁠

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Increase funnel conversion with Psych⁠

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Conservation of intent⁠

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Why Onboarding is the Most Crucial Part of Your Growth Strategy⁠

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Building your growth model and Ladder of Engagement⁠

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A Single-Minded Perspective On Growth⁠

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Mitigate risk

Everything is a bet.

Frontload your risks:

https://conversion-rate-experts.com/rrr/⁠

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Planning is guessing:

https://m.signalvnoise.com/planning-is-guessing/⁠

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Discovery

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Shreyas: 3 quick tips for product discovery⁠

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Execute

Rahul Vora on momentum

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The ONE Thing⁠

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Deadlines matter.⁠

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Avoid procrastination.⁠

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Additional Resources

Shreyas threads

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Time for a meta-thread on the Product Management content I’ve posted over the past 6 months.⁠

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The PM Role

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Good Product Managers, Great Product Managers⁠

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Why Product Management is an important role⁠

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Product Management can be a lonely job⁠

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The 4 possible stages of Product Management at companies⁠

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PM Skills

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PM Career Skills Map⁠

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Understanding People⁠

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Probabilistic Thinking

High Agency

Beware Proof of Worth

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LNO Effectiveness Framework - Leverage, Neutral, Overhead⁠

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The Agreed Target Quality Framework⁠

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The 2 modes in which PMs operate: Think & Do⁠

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Pre-mortems⁠

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A useful question to ask in B2B Product Management⁠

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Understanding and improving Product Sense⁠

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Strategy

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Product Strategy, in 1 tweet⁠

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Good Product Strategy, Bad Product Strategy⁠

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What is NOT Strategy⁠

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Top 12 Strategy Books⁠

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PM Leadership⁠

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https://blackboxofpm.com/⁠

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Super Thinking for mental models⁠

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Templates

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My favorite product management templates Q: I’ve seen you share a few PM templates in the past. Do you have a place to find all of your favorite templates? www.lennysnewsletter.com⁠

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What does a PM actually do?

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