🎾 How To Master Complexity & Autonomy In Product Management Forever (Even If You’ve Tried Everything)

+ Free Guides: Non-Tech AI Coding & Taking Charge of Your Career

Estimated read time: 3 minutes 13 seconds.

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

Welcome to the 108th edition.

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🆕 In today’s edition:

🔒 4 actionable tasks (no dependencies) you can take right now to forward your product & career

1. How to Develop a Complexity-Handling Strategy (With a Few Prompts)

2. How to Get Better at Autonomy

3. How to Analyse Your Throughput

4. How to Optimise Cross-Functional Collaboration Systems

🆓 How non-technical people are using AI to code

🆓 Taking Control of Your Career

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❓ 1 Thought-Provoking Question

If your product was a city, what kind of city would it be, and how would its inhabitants (your users) describe living in it? What would they praise, complain about, and wish for?

🌟 1 Useful Quote

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🎓 2 Learning Opportunities

• Article: How non-technical people are using AI to code

  • Time: 11 minutes

• Video/Audio: Taking Control of Your Career

  • Time: 1 hour 20 minutes

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📋 Quick Poll

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I find the best people and collaborate with them.

You can tell me - via the poll below or by commenting and replying - what you’re struggling with or want to learn about the most:

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⏮️ Rewind

Jan 2023:

From the “Philosopher’s Stone” vaults:

Improv Or Product Development

Leaders, Share Your Mental Models

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🛠️ 3 Actionable Tasks Less Than 30 Minutes Each

Today, I’m trying something new.

I read this great article by

Ami Vora

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As always, I broke it all down into individual subcomponent tasks to make it super-actionable for you.

But I went a little further today…

🦾 I turned ALL these tasks into 1 GPT for you to use.

🥸 And I’m sharing an example conversation for you to follow and see how it works.

Here is what you’ll learn:

1. How to Develop a Complexity-Handling Strategy (With a Few Prompts)

2. How to Get Better at Autonomy

3. How to Analyse Your Throughput

4. How to Optimise Cross-Functional Collaboration Systems

You’ll find the link to the GPT and a link to my shared conversation with it. (You’ll need ChatGPT Plus to use it.)

Now you can repeat this workflow any time you have to deal with a complex problem at work.

Develop a Complexity-Handling Strategy

1. Identify a Complex Problem: Select a current or recent problem that you found particularly complex. This could be a technical challenge, a market positioning issue, or a product development hurdle.

2. Break Down the Problem: Divide the problem into smaller, more manageable components. Use tools like mind mapping or a simple list to categorize different aspects of the problem.

3. Prioritize Components: Rank these components based on their impact and urgency. Focus on the parts that are critical to the problem's resolution.

4. Create a Decision Matrix: Develop a matrix to evaluate solutions for each component. Consider factors like feasibility, cost, time, and impact. Rate each potential solution against these criteria.

5. Select Strategies: Based on the matrix, choose the most effective strategy for each component. Combine these strategies to form an overall approach to the complex problem.

6. Draft an Action Plan: Outline a step-by-step action plan to implement these strategies. Set short-term goals and deadlines to track progress.