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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
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 settle in.
- Get in front of your users. Spend more time with your users in the beginning. Go on sales calls and customer visits. Engage on forums and Twitter.
- Fix something. Fix a bug or launch a small feature on your own.
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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 ...
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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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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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