Lean leverage is about simplifying. It is what happens when you remove the inessential to deliver maximum outcomes. When the superfluous is out of the way, you get two benefits. First, you don’t waste energy on what is not needed, and second, you focus more quality time on what needs to be done. Follow me on this journey in 2024 below:
Get ready to ease your product journey.
Are you ready to enable maximum outcomes without heavy processes and tooling? If so, you have come to the right place. Here you will find simple techniques to achieve lean leverage amidst today’s high complexity and uncertainty.
Lean Leverage: Achieve more, with less in 2024
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- #17: Beating Deadlines 101: How to Outsmart the Corporate Obsession: Grab 18 small but powerful tips any manager can use to win at the deadline game.
- #16: A Quick Guide to Avoid the #1 Mistake With User Stories: Learn to differentiate user stories from requirements, avoiding common output-fixation pitfalls in product development for better outcomes.
- #15: Apply These 5 Product Team Tactics to Bypass Emotion and Act With Clarity: Discover 5+1 tactics to beat emotion-driven development, fostering clarity & change in product teams. Embrace Lean Leverage & customer focus for success.
- #14: The Impacts of Change on the Brain and 5 Helpful Tweaks Change Agents Must Make: With change, fear and uncertainty creep up fast, followed by resistance. How does this affect the brain? Read this to find out, and learn 5 tweaks change agents must make to navigate it better.
- #13: 8 Ways to Connect Teams to Customers and Avoid the Mistake of Backlog Fixation: Explore 8 strategies to know your customers better & move beyond backlog focus. Learn to bridge the gap between product teams & customers for success.
- #12: How Managers Embrace Change Like a Leader By Not Running Away From Friction: Discover how managers transition to leaders by embracing friction during change. 4 steps for navigating resistance and a tip for dealing with scale safely.
- #11 Don’t Neglect the 3 Critical Ingredients of Every Successful Change: Discover 3 ingredients of successful change: the will to embrace it, the skills to navigate it, and a safe space for it. And learn how to make it stick.
- #10: How Savvy Product Leaders Handle 5 Common Stakeholder Asks Without Betting on Hope: Discover how savvy product leaders navigate stakeholder asks with evidence-driven responses to common asks, avoiding false promises based on hope.
- #9: The Quiet Voices On a Product Team Are Its Powerful, Secret Weapon: Empower quiet voices in your product team with my 6 simple strategies to unlock their hidden power and enhance team dynamics.
- #8: The 9 Rare Traits of Unstoppable Product Teams Who Fear No Obstacle: Discover 9 traits of unstoppable product teams that transform obstacles into success, focusing on customer delight, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
- #7: Master Outcome Success: Surpass 97% of Product Teams With 4 Simple Patterns: Unlock the power of outcome mastery and elevate your product team’s performance with these 4 transformative patterns. Surpass 97% of your peers effortlessly.
- #6: The Inescapable Deadline: 5 Reasons Managers of Product Teams Keep Setting Them: Explore why managers set deadlines for product teams and their impact on motivation. Learn better, deadline-free success strategies.
- #5: How Product Teams Claim Victory Too Soon and Let Value Slip Away (And How Not To): Explore why product teams often celebrate too soon, missing out on real value. Learn strategies to ensure meaningful success and claim real victory.
- #4: 8 Signals of Low Product Team Purpose | No Engagement Surveys Needed: Explore the 8 signals of the conditions that sabotage product team purpose. Learn to foster autonomy and mastery for stronger, purpose-driven teams.
- #3: 3 Ways Leaders Can Cultivate a Learning Culture and Build Insanely Curious Product Teams: Discover 3 ways to foster curious product teams, turning a learning culture into a driving force for innovation. You have to remove what’s in the way.
- #2: How to optimize product team success: measure what matters – Discover the key to product team success: Learn how to measure what matters and use lean leverage to ensure peak performance and outcomes
- #1: Winning with product management in 2024 via lean leverage – A new, simpler approach to achieve more value with less complexity.