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Why Drawing Maps Sharpens Your Thinking
“Could it have been the drawing of maps that boosted our ancestors beyond the threshold which the other apes just failed to cross?” – Richard Dawkins Have you ever wondered why the Business Model Canvas spread like wildfire? To me, the answer is clear. It’s a simple, visual tool that communicates the key elements of […]
Why You Aren’t Learning As Much As You Could From Your Experiments
I love that A/B testing has become so popular. It’s an important tool in our toolbox. But it frustrates me that we use it so poorly. Most teams make one of the following two mistakes: They either gate releases with an A/B test trying to understand whether or not the feature had the intended impact […]
Product Managers, Level Up Your Problem-Solving Skills
I’ve never met a product manager who doesn’t want to get better at what they do. The challenge is not in the desire, but in putting that desire into action. Product management isn’t a well-defined function. It’s changed rapidly over the past two decades. Most of us have had to learn on the fly, doing […]
