Guest: Ravi Mehta - Co-founder and CEO of Outpace. Ravi has held significant product leadership roles at Tinder, Facebook, and Tripadvisor, and is known for his contributions to product strategy and leadership education through Reforge. Key Takeaways: Product Strategy Stack: Ravi introduces a framework to clarify the relationship between mission, strategy, product strategy, roadmap, and goals. This helps teams align on priorities and make informed decisions. Vision in Strategy: Emphasizes the importance of visualizing the product vision with wireframes to ensure team alignment and clarity. Understanding Goals: Ravi suggests focusing on understanding and execution risks before setting outcome-based goals, especially in uncertain areas. Product Management Competencies: Ravi outlines 12 competencies across execution, customer insight, strategy, and leadership, crucial for PM growth and effectiveness. Selective Micromanagement: Encourages leaders to engage deeply and temporarily when teams are off track, providing frameworks to guide them back to autonomy. Topics Covered: Product strategy stack, vision and wireframes, goal setting and understanding risk, product management competencies, selective micromanagement, AI in coaching, differences between startup and big company PM roles.
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