📰 The 52 Best Newsletter Articles Of The Week In Product & Growth
September 30th to October 6th
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🧐 Today At A Glance
52 of our favorites, segmented by the following categories:
Product Management (10 articles)
Growth (7)
Leadership & Strategy (10)
Experimentation & Analysis (10)
Agile & Product Ownership (5)
User Experience, Research, & Design (10)
My favorite article for each category
The top 10 articles that our community clicked on last week
ONWARDS! 🚀🚀🚀
📰 Best 10 Newsletter Posts In Product
Uncommon Advice to Young People Who Want to Succeed in Product Management
Type: Leadership
The Shape Up Method: What Product Managers Need to Know
Type: Insights/Thinking
You Are Too Emotional About Titles!
Type: Personal Development
How can we be less wrong at work?
Type: Personal Development
How Facebook does Product Management
Type: Case Study/Allegory
Solve problems better and faster with these 5 tricks
Type: Personal Development
Human needs are universal; product solutions are unique
Type: Insights/Thinking
Type: Personal Development
Elon Musk's Storytelling Framework
Type: Case Study/Allegory
You Are Not Your Customer: How to Make Better Product Decisions
Type: Personal Development
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📰 Best 7 Newsletter Posts In Growth
Type: Case Study/Allegory
Using Aristotle’s Insights to Optimize Your Email Marketing Strategy
Type: Insights/Thinking
Four Category-Making Case Studies
Type: Case Study/Allegory
Type: Insights/Thinking
Signal Optimisation for Performance Marketing
Type: Insights/Thinking
How Reviews Boost Your Visibility?
Type: Insights/Thinking
Using funnel analysis to optimize growth
Type: Functional Excellence
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📰 Best 10 Newsletter Posts In Leadership & Strategy
Type: Functional Excellence
Should you buy a media company?
Type: Insights/Thinking
18 Tips That Helped Me Manage Up
Type: Leadership
Annual planning is a colossal waste of time
Type: Insights/Thinking
Working Remotely Doesn’t Fragment the Organization: A lack of direction does
Type: Leadership
The Counterintuitive Economics of Hiring
Type: Relationships
Owner Economics & Strategy: Don’t Fall Prey to this Seductive Fallacy
Type: Insights/Thinking
Only 7% of companies have digitally savvy leadership
Type: Insights/Thinking
The $100 Trillion Opportunity in Marketplaces
Type: Insights/Thinking
Why Your Next ‘Yes’ Hire Might Come From Someone Who Just Said ‘No’ To Your Job Offer
Type: Relationships
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📰 Best 10 Newsletter Posts In Experimentation & Analysis
Gaining data visualization insight via color deficiency transformations
Type: Functional Excellence
When not to use surveys as a primary research tool
Type: Functional Excellence
15 ways to double your freemium conversion rates
Type: Functional Excellence
Correlation and causation: how to tell the difference and why it matters for products
Type: Insights/Thinking
Increasing Inbound to MQL Conversion by 20 Percent
Type: Case Study/Allegory
How to check analysis quality: 3 rules
Type: Functional Excellence
How to choose retention model for your product
Type: Functional Excellence
An enhanced version of the analysis of how product features impact retention.
Type: Functional Excellence
Feature Metrics based on Product Lifecycle
Type: Functional Excellence
Type: Functional Excellence
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📰 Best 5 Newsletter Posts In Agile & Product Ownership
Type: Functional Excellence
Introduction to Flowing OKRs: a pragmatic implementation of OKRs
Type: Functional Excellence
How Do OKRs Impact The Tools Teams Need To Be Successful?
Type: Insights/Thinking
Staying Agile in Product Development
Type: Functional Excellence
How decentralised cost ownership typifies the agile mindset
Type: Insights/Thinking
📰 Best 10 Newsletter Posts In User Experience, Research, & Design
Intelligent Creativity is transforming how we create and use brand systems
Type: Insights/Thinking
Insights from ‘Designing for inclusivity with WhatsApp’s product designers’
Type: Case Study/Allegory
One formula to rule them all: the ROI of a Design System
Type: Functional Excellence
Setting objectives for user research
Type: Functional Excellence
Type: Insights/Thinking
Minimal Viable P, or how to adopt a circular design mindset
Type: Personal Development
The Four Quadrants of Product Design
Type: Insights/Thinking
Design Systems: All you need to know
Type: Personal Development
A change in design that saved 1.2 million kgs of single-use cutlery!
Type: Insights/Thinking
The Beginner’s Guide to Conducting User Interviews
Type: Functional Excellence
⭐ My favorite article this week from each category
Product
Type: Personal Development
Growth
Using Aristotle’s Insights to Optimize Your Email Marketing Strategy
Type: Insights/Thinking
Leadership & Strategy
Owner Economics & Strategy: Don’t Fall Prey to this Seductive Fallacy
Type: Insights/Thinking
Experimentation & Analysis
How to choose retention model for your product
Type: Functional Excellence
Agile & Product Ownership
Introduction to Flowing OKRs: a pragmatic implementation of OKRs
Type: Functional Excellence
User Experience, Research, & Design
Minimal Viable P, or how to adopt a circular design mindset
Type: Personal Development
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🏆 Top 10 Most Popular Articles From Last Week!
Out of the 60 articles we shared last week, the following are the top 10 articles our community clicked on the most.
The Bread, Butter & Berries of a Product Manager: 25 docs, decks & diagrams
Type: Functional Excellence
Type: Functional Excellence
This 7-Part Storytelling Framework Might Be The Most Powerful Persuasion Tool Ever Created
Type: Functional Excellence
Make “Evidence-based” Decisions, Not “Data-based” Decisions
Type: Insights/Thinking
Patreon’s $4B Product and Growth Engine 🚀
Type: Case Study/Allegory
A look at the growth strategies that led to Tray.io to become a $ 600Mn company
Type: Case Study/Allegory
Why build a Data Product? In short, to tame complexity.
Type: Insights/Thinking
Examples of simple-yet-powerful product vision statements
Type: Functional Excellence
Opportunity Solution Tree: Go to strategy for decision-making as a PM!
Type: Functional Excellence
How to transform data points into airtight narratives
Type: Functional Excellence
There you have it! 52 of the best articles of the last week, my favorites, and the top 10 favorites of our community from the previous week.
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Until next time, as always, stay well product and growth friends!