Product Talk Daily: Avoid vertical stacks of opportunities.
Either reframe them or fill in the missing siblings.
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"Our goal is to work on the most impactful opportunity, but we can’t assess every opportunity we come across. We’d spend weeks assessing the opportunity space instead of shipping value to our customers."
Opportunity Mapping: An Essential Skill for Driving Product Outcomes
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How to Overcome the Bias We Have Toward Our Own Ideas
I write frequently about confirmation bias or the fact that we tend to fall in love with our own ideas and find "evidence" that supports them. This Harvard Business Review article shares new research on people's tendency to overvalue their own ideas (and those from managers and groups). It's an important reminder to take a critical approach to our decision-making.
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