4 questions Shreyas Doshi wishes he’d asked himself sooner | Former PM leader at Stripe, Twitter, Google

Oct 31, 2024 45m 34s 5 insights Episode Page ↗
Shreyas Goshi shares three questions, plus a bonus, he wished he'd asked himself sooner as a PM leader. He discusses overcoming busyness, developing good taste, managing career frustration, and the true meaning of listening.
Actionable Insights

1. Align Work with Superpowers

Identify your core strengths and preferred operating level (impact, execution, or optics) and make career decisions that align with them, rather than following traditional paths or external expectations, to avoid frustration and maximize impact.

2. Practice Deeper Listening

Go beyond superficial listening (recapping, eye contact) to discover a deeper level of understanding, which is essential for becoming a world-class leader. Explore resources from Rick Rubin, D-Hawk, and Drucker for guidance.

3. Develop Clear Product Strategy

Spend upfront time creating a real product strategy that everyone is aligned with to significantly reduce time spent on annual planning and make prioritization easier.

4. Pause Before Product Decisions

Take time (two minutes to two weeks) to thoroughly think through product decisions, considering customer motivation, differentiation, and distribution, as most ’two-way doors’ are actually one-way and lead to accumulating unnecessary work.

5. Cultivate Critical Thinking

Develop ‘good taste’ by evaluating ideas based on their merit, independent of catchy metaphors, alliterations, social proof, or authority bias, to become a more critical thinker.