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How to focus on the present moment
How to cultivate empathy and understanding towards others
How to set personal and professional goals
People
- Set clear expectations with the CEO or manager. Your main goal in the first month is to effectively join a team.
- Schedule a one-on-one with everyone on the team. This may take a few hours or the whole first month.
- Ask everyone, "What can I do to make your life easier?" You'll show that you're here to help, not to command.
- Take a load off their back. Take from them something that is cutting into their productivity.
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Personal
- Read old OKRs, specs, design documents, wiki pages, and anything else you can get your hands on. Add missing documentation, and write up what you've learned and how you can improve things for the next hire.
- Set some personal development goals. What d...
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Product
- Schedule time with your lead engineer to walk you through the product's technical architecture. Ask questions about things that are unclear.
- Hold back a bit on changing things. Your ideas and thoughts will be better formed after you had a chance to s...
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The product managers first month
How a new product manager approaches their first month in a company will determine their success.
In the first month, product managers should focus on these three areas:
- People
- Product
- Personal
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- Each month one person on each product team becomes the "Hero." Their primary responsibilities are to communicate with their support team and take care of smaller improvements.
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Altering our mood
The "activation theory" is the idea is that people need a certain amount of mental arousal to function effectively.
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