📰 The 55 Best Newsletter Articles Of The Week In Product & Growth
📰 The 55 Best Newsletter Articles Of The Week In Product & Growth
October 28th to November 3rd
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🧐 Today At A Glance
55 of our favorite product & growth articles, categorized by:
Personal Development (10 articles)
Insights/Thinking (10)
Leadership (10)
Case Study/Allegory (10)
Functional Excellence (10)
Relationships (5)
My favorite article for each category
The top 10 articles that our community clicked on last week
ONWARDS! 🚀🚀🚀
📰 Best 10 Newsletter Posts: Personal Development
Non-linear professional development: Approaches to coaching and career development that help build resilience in career paths
There are multiple reasons to value non-linear professional development. First, the product manager would...
4 Negative Loops you should avoid as a PM
There are four main negative loops that product teams should avoid in their work: the GTM-gap loop, the c...
On Michael Crichton’s Busy Ambition
Like Michael Crichton, you can use your own ambition to improve your personal life and ways of thinking. ...
Everything Has An Origin. Don't Be Afraid To Question It
Everything has an origin. Questioning that origin can help us improve our lives and ways of thinking. Why...
Product Awareness — Find Balance and Avoiding Narrow-Minded Thinking
Product management is all about finding the right balance between different stakeholders, products, and o...
How To Stop Accepting The Way It Is And Become A Strategic, Future-Oriented Thinker
Stop accepting the status quo and become a strategic thinker who can see the big picture and make decisio...
5 Lessons Sales People Need to Succeed Fast When Moving into a Product Role
If you're interested in product and want to improve your personal life and ways of thinking, then followi...
Want to Handle Uncertainty as a Leader? Build More Personal Awareness
Building personal awareness is a key way to become a better leader. By understanding your own emotions an...
First principle strategy & decision making of a Product Manager
Use this three-step process to improve your decision-making skills and think more strategically as a prod...
External accountability is what most of us are missing
By finding an external accountability partner, you can improve your personal life and ways of thinking. T...
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We then curate at most 60 articles that we feel our community will enjoy the most
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📰 Best 10 Newsletter Posts: Insights/Thinking
How user-centered design might be holding you back
User-centered design can be a great way to improve the user experience of a product, but it can also hold...
Gamification as a product strategy
Gamification can be used as a strategy to improve product management by making the process more fun and e...
The Galápagos Syndrome of Technology in South Korea
The Galápagos syndrome of technology in South Korea is a major problem for the country's competitiveness....
What UX researchers can learn from negotiators, psychologists and detectives
UX researchers can learn from negotiators, psychologists, and detectives in order to improve ther profess...
Time to Value: Why product-led companies grow just like they were printing money
Psychology can be a powerful tool for marketers interested in growth. In this article, we learn how psych...
Verticals, Horizontals, and Dimensions
Fight the relevant dimensionality bias instead of thinking about relevant dimensionality instead of verti...
How Hype Marketing Works With Our Brain & Brand
Hype marketing is a powerful tool that can be used to influence people's behavior and thinking. By unders...
B2B Product Management And The Problem With Revenue Debt
You must be aware of the potential problems that can arise from revenue debt. This article provides insig...
Finding Product/Market Fit with Network Effects
Product-market fit and network effects can be used to improve a marketer's professional life and ways of ...
A practical guide to prediscovery
Prediscovery is all about leading initiatives and being proactive, so you can use it to make your work mo...
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📰 Best 10 Newsletter Posts: Leadership
How to Be a Truly Great Product Leader: The Customer
Why do we in Product so often forget the customer? We look at how systematically focusing on the customer...
8 Essential Leadership Questions For Creating Energy In The Organisation
You can create energy in your organisation by asking the right questions. Use these 8 essential questions...
Do You Hate Giving Feedback? Learn To Make It Fun
Do you hate giving feedback? Learn to make it fun! Read tips on how to make feedback fun, so you can be a...
Good Leadership Is About Growth, Not Brilliance
A good leader is not necessarily brilliant, but they are always growing. Become a better leader by always...
How to distinguish a true servant leader through a rarely used “test”? Why is it important?
Are you a true servant leader? You can find out through a rarely used test. This test is important becaus...
3 Ways To Be Liked And Respected As A Leader (Even When You're Hated)
If you want to be a respected leader, you need to be honest, transparent, and authentic. People will resp...
The skills we aren’t taught, and how you can expand your leadership through leveraging them
There are many skills that we are not taught in school, but that can be incredibly useful in the workplac...
Leading with a Self-Managing Lens
Adopting a self-managing lens can help you become a better leader. By focusing on your own development an...
Why Transformational Leadership Is The Future Of Organizational Success?
Transformational leadership is all about creating a vision for the future and inspiring others to achieve...
The War Leaders vs. The World Leaders
The difference between "war leaders" and "world leaders" are that the latter are better suited to lead in...
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📰 Best 10 Newsletter Posts: Case Study/Allegory
How Superhuman Grows
Superhuman used a variety of experimental techniques to grow, including A/B testing, to improve its user ...
The Birth of Test Marketing & How It Saved a Dying Brand
Learn how test marketing can be used to assess customer reaction to new products or changes in product of...
Product Pivots from Shopify, YouTube, Pinterest, Instagram and more
This article discusses 16 different product pivots that have been made by successful companies, including...
Inside Hotjar’s bootstrapped PLG strategy, and how they scaled to $50M+ ARR
Hotjar, a bootstrapped company, used a "pay later, grow faster" strategy to fuel its growth. This strateg...
Turning a failed MVP into an influencer marketing tool with up to $70K monthly revenue
These founders got off to a rough start: they couldn’t get a single customer with their MVP (minimum viab...
How Psychology Saved Apple
Apple applied psychology to understand why people didn't want to switch from their current phones to the ...
How Ramp Builds Products
Ramp, a product management software company, uses the following process to build products: first, they re...
The use of buyer psychology principles in Google's search business
By understanding its customers and their buying psychology, Google was able to develop products that met ...
How Etsy Grows
Etsy uses a data-driven approach to become one of the most successful e-commerce companies. Learn how to u...
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📰 Best 10 Newsletter Posts: Functional Excellence
13 examples of smart subscription retention tactics
There are many ways to keep your subscribers happy and engaged. By using the 13 smart retention tactics i...
Why Spotify uses web diverts in its native apps
Spotify uses web diverts to improve the overall UX of its native apps. By understanding how and why Spoti...
Aha, moment! What is it, and why should every product have it?
The Aha! Moment is the moment when a person has a sudden realization or understanding of something. As a ...
How to Promote Affiliate Links Without a Website
Read to learn how to improve your affiliate marketing skills without a website. By creating content that ...
EKB Model of Consumer Behaviour
The EKB model is a model of consumer behaviour that can be used by marketers to improve their product man...
How Will You Reach Millions of Customers?
In order to reach more customers and grow your business, create a marketing plan, identify your target au...
Gap Analysis for Strategic Thinking is Full of Holes — Here is a Better Approach
Dan Kiskis discusses the importance of relationships in marketing, and how marketers can...
Bad service design is death by 1000 cuts
Bad service design is like death by 1000 cuts. It's a slow and painful process that can be avoided by pay...
Integrating a Media Mix Model into a digital marketing workflow
A media mix model can help you optimize your workflow and improve your ability to reach your target audie...
The 3-Step Framework To Name, Frame, And Claim Your Category
Use the 3-step framework to name, frame, and claim your category to better understand your target audienc...
📰 Best 5 Newsletter Posts: Relationships
Look Into My Eyes: Why Hybrid Is Here To Stay
Hybrid marketing is a combination of online and offline marketing efforts. You can use this approach to r...
What I’ve Learned from My Best Managers
Deb Liu discusses her experience with different managers and what she has learned from them. She highligh...
How to build meaningful connections that drive long-term collective success
By building meaningful connections with your customers, you can create long-term loyalty and drive sales....
Want to Hire Great People? Learn to Build a Bench
Building a "bench" of great employees can help a company improve its hiring. By having a pool of great em...
How to spot a great Product Manager + Engineer partnership
Great product manager-engineer partnerships are built on trust, respect, and a shared commitment to the p...
⭐ My favorite article this week from each category
Personal Development
How To Stop Accepting The Way It Is And Become A Strategic, Future-Oriented Thinker
Stop accepting the status quo and become a strategic thinker who can see the big picture and make decisio...
Insights/Thinking
Verticals, Horizontals, and Dimensions
Fight the relevant dimensionality bias instead of thinking about relevant dimensionality instead of verti...
Leadership
Leading with a Self-Managing Lens
Adopting a self-managing lens can help you become a better leader. By focusing on your own development an...
Case Study/Allegory
The use of buyer psychology principles in Google's search business
By understanding its customers and their buying psychology, Google was able to develop products that met ...
Functional Excellence
How to Promote Affiliate Links Without a Website
Read to learn how to improve your affiliate marketing skills without a website. By creating content that ...
Relationships
Want to Hire Great People? Learn to Build a Bench
Building a "bench" of great employees can help a company improve its hiring. By having a pool of great em...
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🏆 Top 10 Most Popular Articles From Last Week!
Out of the 47 articles we shared last week, the following are the top 10 articles our community clicked on the most.
#10 - How Apple Mastered a 100-Year-Old Strategy Used to Sell Beer
Type: Case Study/Allegory
#9 - The storyteller’s paradox
Type: Insights/Thinking
#8 - Opportunities in generative AI
Type: Insights/Thinking
#7 - Amazon’s Guide To Marketing Psychology
Type: Insights/Thinking
#6 - The One Management Framework To Lead Your Team To Better Results Without Being An Ass
Type: Leadership
#5 - Similarities between building great products and building a good life
Type: Personal Development
#4 - WTF is product strategy, really?
Type: Insights/Thinking
#3 - How Notion Grows
Type: Case Study/Allegory
#2 - Most People Are Reflexive Thinkers. Here’s How To Unlock Breakthrough Ideas
Type: Personal Development
#1 - The Decision-Making Framework That Gave Me Access to the Good Life
Type: Personal Development
There you have it! 55 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!