How do you hack your career as a product leader ?
As a PM we work on various products, write PRDs and brainstorm with stakeholders. But we forget to work on the most important product we should be working on i.e., “ourselves”. Career hypothesis is often overlooked by individuals
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💡 First things first, what exactly is career hypotheses?
Career hypotheses is how we determine and experiment with our field of work.
It’s important for you to branch out, take on a creative challenge. It’s key to keep learning because it enables the element of risk
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💡 How do you grow as a product leader ?
The simplest way is to apply the skills required for being a product leader on the job.Majorly these are some skills which you should have a good clarity about as a PM:
👉 Technical skills
👉 Management skills
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👉 An eye for design and creative skills
👉 Ability to do qualitative analysis
👉 Ability to communicate efficiently
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💡 Experiment via side projects and get feedback from your mentors
👉 Building side projects give you an edge over others at the same level as you.
👉 It helps you understand the intricacies of a particular problem which reading or solving case studies might not give
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💡 Create a personal board of directors.
👉 This is the combination of your peers and mentors who can learn new stuff and be more self-aware.
👉 Choose peers who are at a similar stage and the ones who can provide great mutual support.
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👉 Mentors must be people who can provide feedback and have good network and exp
Here’s a very interesting video where Gibson Biddle shares insights on how you can “Hack your product leader career”