🎾 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.
🆕 In today’s edition:
🔒 4 actionable tasks (no dependencies) you can take right now to forward your product & career
How to Develop a Complexity-Handling Strategy (With a Few Prompts)
How to Get Better at Autonomy
How to Analyse Your Throughput
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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From the “Philosopher’s Stone” vaults:
🛠️ 3 Actionable Tasks Less Than 30 Minutes Each
Today, I’m trying something new.
I read this great article by
.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:
How to Develop a Complexity-Handling Strategy (With a Few Prompts)
How to Get Better at Autonomy
How to Analyse Your Throughput
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
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.
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.
Prioritize Components: Rank these components based on their impact and urgency. Focus on the parts that are critical to the problem's resolution.
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.
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.
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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