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This is Sunday 1-1-2-3 with George.

Welcome to the 95th edition.

Today we have:

• 10 Simple Slide Tips to Crush Your Next Presentation [Save The Checklist]

• Execution Is Overrated. Strategic Clarity Is Key - Lessons From Nubank CPO

• The Top 1-5% PM Growth Equation

• Bring Back Scenario Analysis

• 10 Questions to Guide the Decision to Invest in Your Team

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💾 10 Simple Slide Tips to Crush Your Next Presentation [Save The Checklist]

Let me share something more tactical today.

I found this article really helpful as a general framework to check my slides against.

Here are the 10 principles:

1. Stick to one idea per slide.

2. Don’t use your slides as a script.

3. Remove redundant content.

4. Have a minimum 30-point size.

5. Don’t use bullet points.

6. Max 20 words per slide.

7. Have one image per slide.

8. Edit edit edit.

9. Have fewer slides than the number of minutes of your talk.

10. You aren’t the exception.

And here’s a checklist to help you actually check yourself agains these principles:

10 Specific Things To Check Your Slide Deck Against [Checklist with Tactics]

Q: Does your organisation use slides or written documents? Are you good at either?

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☕️ Execution Is Overrated. Strategic Clarity Is Key

This is a great and an unexpectedly nuanced dive into this topic with the CPO at Nubank.

I queued the right section from this podcast for you to listen. For some reason, I hit another level of appreciation for these somewhat cliche notions of strategy vs. execution. I wonder if it’ll resonate with you as well.

Jag says a few things:

• Be clear about who you’re building for - makes sense, but no one does it well.

• Align “winning” to the business.

• Customer love before scaling - launch, validate PM/F, then scale.

How I interpret it for my own product:

• I have a new feature that the previous PM built. It’s feature flagged right now.

• At the time, they acted on 1 of the most voted product ideas to add this feature.

• At some point though, they made a leap to say, “Each of the millions of users on the app wants this feature.” They never narrowed it down to the specific types of customers that will use this feature.

• Their plan was to release this feature to everyone and wait to see if any negative feedback trickled in.

• The path I will take is:

  • Understand (at least now, which is late, but ok) who might have really needed this feature, test with them, validate that it has fit (through retention analysis and maybe a Sean Ellis test). Coincidentally, this is the part that doesn’t have any process or repeatability, so I know it’ll be hard to do and valuable if done.

  • Only then I might expand it wider. Negative feedback might still come, but I have clear confirmation that it has fit for a subset of users that really love it.

  • If there’s negative feedback, the question then becomes more nuanced. It’s not “kill this feature or not?” (and trying to retroactively prove that it has value). It’s “why do some people love it and others hate it, and how can we get a win-win?”.

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🍪 Quick Bites

• The Top 1-5% PM Growth Equation

• Bring Back Scenario Analysis

• 10 Questions to Guide the Decision to Invest in Your Team

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