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Sunday 1-1-2-3 with George

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Sunday 1-1-2-3 with George
Sunday 1-1-2-3 with George
🎾 How To Master Complexity & Autonomy In Product Management Forever (Even If You’ve Tried Everything)

🎾 How To Master Complexity & Autonomy In Product Management Forever (Even If You’ve Tried Everything)

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🎾 How To Master Complexity & Autonomy In Product Management Forever (Even If You’ve Tried Everything)
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This is Sunday 1-1-2-3 with George.

Welcome to the 108th edition.


Want to make progress and lead without sacrificing your creativity? Join 2185 smart people who are learning now:


🆕 In today’s edition:

🔒 4 actionable tasks (no dependencies) you can take right now to forward your product & career

  1. How to Develop a Complexity-Handling Strategy (With a Few Prompts)

  2. How to Get Better at Autonomy

  3. How to Analyse Your Throughput

  4. How to Optimise Cross-Functional Collaboration Systems

🆓 How non-technical people are using AI to code

🆓 Taking Control of Your Career


❓ 1 Thought-Provoking Question

If your product was a city, what kind of city would it be, and how would its inhabitants (your users) describe living in it? What would they praise, complain about, and wish for?

🌟 1 Useful Quote


🎓 2 Learning Opportunities

  • Article: How non-technical people are using AI to code

    • Time: 11 minutes

  • Video/Audio: Taking Control of Your Career

    • Time: 1 hour 20 minutes


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🛠️ 3 Actionable Tasks Less Than 30 Minutes Each

Today, I’m trying something new.

I read this great article by

Ami Vora
.

As always, I broke it all down into individual subcomponent tasks to make it super-actionable for you.

But I went a little further today…

🦾 I turned ALL these tasks into 1 GPT for you to use.

🥸 And I’m sharing an example conversation for you to follow and see how it works.

Here is what you’ll learn:

  1. How to Develop a Complexity-Handling Strategy (With a Few Prompts)

  2. How to Get Better at Autonomy

  3. How to Analyse Your Throughput

  4. How to Optimise Cross-Functional Collaboration Systems

You’ll find the link to the GPT and a link to my shared conversation with it. (You’ll need ChatGPT Plus to use it.)

Now you can repeat this workflow any time you have to deal with a complex problem at work.

Develop a Complexity-Handling Strategy

  1. Identify a Complex Problem: Select a current or recent problem that you found particularly complex. This could be a technical challenge, a market positioning issue, or a product development hurdle.

  2. Break Down the Problem: Divide the problem into smaller, more manageable components. Use tools like mind mapping or a simple list to categorize different aspects of the problem.

  3. Prioritize Components: Rank these components based on their impact and urgency. Focus on the parts that are critical to the problem's resolution.

  4. Create a Decision Matrix: Develop a matrix to evaluate solutions for each component. Consider factors like feasibility, cost, time, and impact. Rate each potential solution against these criteria.

  5. Select Strategies: Based on the matrix, choose the most effective strategy for each component. Combine these strategies to form an overall approach to the complex problem.

  6. Draft an Action Plan: Outline a step-by-step action plan to implement these strategies. Set short-term goals and deadlines to track progress.

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