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When it came to goal setting, Andy Grove felt strongly that less is more: The one thing an [OKR] system should provide par excellence is focus. This can only happen if we keep the number of objectives small ….
Measure What Matters
John Doerr
Ditch the discussion guide. Instead, generate a list of research questions (what you need to learn), and identify one or two story-based interview questions (what you’ll ask). Remember, a story-based interview question starts with, “Tell me about a specific time when…”
Continuous Discovery Habits
Teresa Torres
If you’re only responsible for a part of the user experience, and not the whole thing, then you should think through the core benefits you can offer users (i.e. the value proposition from JTBD), and how you can reinforce these benefits in ways that competitors will find difficult to replicate.
This can take the format:
*[Imagined feature] might offer [core customer benefit], whilst being difficult to copy because [hard-to-copy superpower].*
**Example**
**Smart locks** on home dramatically improve guest experience (never lose key) and host safety (change code for every stay). This is difficult for competitors to copy because integrating hardware and software at scale and cross-platform is a huge task.
How to Write a Product Strategy in 1 Day / 1 Week / 1 Month
Aakash Gupta
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