A batch of the best highlights from what Felicity's read, .
**Product Strategy**
The product strategy describes how you plan to accomplish the product vision, while meeting the needs of the business as you go. The strategy starts with focus, then leverages insights, converts these insights into action, and finally manages the work through to completion. We dive into what all this means in chapter 16, “Product Strategy.”
Transformed
Marty Cagan
Many companies like to describe themselves as winning through operational effectiveness or customer intimacy. These sound like good ideas, but if they don’t translate into a genuinely lower cost structure or higher prices from customers, they aren’t really strategies worth having.
Playing to Win
A. G. Lafley, Roger Martin, A.G. Lafley, Roger L. Martin
In product development, avoiding these pitfalls requires not only defining the right metrics but also maintaining a willingness to revisit and refine them. Metrics should not be static; they must evolve as the context and the goals change. Moreover, leaders must remain vigilant to ensure that the pursuit of those metrics does not lead to a loss of purpose or values. Sometimes it means slowing down, adding friction, or choosing a less profitable path because it’s the right one.
Unintended Consequences - by Mike Fisher
Unintended Consequences