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Seeing Yourself through Others’ Eyes (guest post by Deb Liu)
How to view yourself the way your advocates do
Oct 30
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How to stop getting interrupted (aka, turn the worst offenders into the best defenders)
“I have an idea here,” I said. “If we choose 5 of our largest customers to pilot a new program with—”
Oct 9
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September 2024
5 tips to plan my career like I plan my product
One of the best pieces of advice I’ve heard for career growth is “Build your career like you would your product.” We’ve built up all these skills when…
Sep 25
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Making the tradeoff between speed and quality
“We need to ship faster,” I said to my team. “We know what we need to build, and the best thing we can do for our customers is get it into their hands…
Sep 5
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August 2024
The 4 components of product quality: performance, bugs, completeness, and consistency
In every team I’ve been on, we’ve always had long-running discussions (sometimes edging into an argument!) about whether our product is the right level…
Aug 15
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June 2024
A shortcut for building confidence in my product opinion
As someone who often gets pulled into very different problems, one of the hardest parts of my job is to build confidence in my product opinion fast…
Jun 12
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May 2024
How becoming a parent (or having a life outside work) has made me a better leader
As the mom of 3 young children, I often get asked the universal question: “How can I have it all?” I completely understand why!
May 9
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How becoming a parent (or having a life outside work) has made me a better leader
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April 2024
Becoming my own “burnout spotter”
“You need to change something now,” my friend Annette told me. “Because otherwise you’re going to tell me in a month that you’re burned out and need a…
Apr 23
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Execution beats strategy every time
One of the most important lessons I learned at Meta is the by-now-common refrain of “Execution eats strategy for breakfast.”
Apr 10
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March 2024
Getting out of meetings and into focused work
Do you ever open up your calendar in the morning and sadly realize that you’ll spend your whole day in back-to-back meetings, with zero time to create…
Mar 27
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The goal of a “strategy” is to change our own team’s behavior
“What I really want is to work on…is strategy,” I’ve heard from colleagues on every team I’ve been on. And it’s no surprise — big strategy projects can…
Mar 13
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February 2024
The 3 key jobs of a product manager: Recognize the problem, Structure a solution, and Execute
In my first full-time official job after college, I became a product manager. I showed up to my shiny new office (with a closing door!) ready to create…
Feb 28
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