Given that you are now a gardener, not an individual growth driver, you need to build systems that reliably drive business impact.
Generally speaking, most product leaders use 3 levers:
- Strategy: this is all about a vision that’s rooted in your ICP and value proposition, has clear commercial goals, and which is supported by pillars of work which have resources allocated to them
- Execution: how do you align leaders behind your plan, how do you keep your teams accountable and reduce risk, and how do you ensure that plans are operationally viable
- People: how you design your org, roles and responsibilities, scale of the team, hiring capacity, performance management and morale
We’ll mostly be focusing on the people side in this course.
Product audit
As a best practice we also recommend doing a product audit to identify bottlenecks, or choke points, and then prioritise key fixes.
It’s also a useful communication tool for teams. It shows you’ve identified and understood key issues, and longer term there’s a plan to work on them.
The Hustle Badger Product Audit Template
Here’s a list of other key resources on the other topics to help you deep dive.
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