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Context Matters
One of the hardest things to build in a team is a deep and lasting sense of trust. There are many ways to go about it, but one that I have consistently…
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Good Friction
A maxim you learn early and often in product optimization is to remove friction. Remove it from the purchase funnel. Eliminate unnecessary screens and…
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Product Meets Market Interaction
Product and marketing need to work together to create the best outcome. If you only focus on one, you are optimizing only part of the total value of…
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Valuable Sources
Growth-oriented product managers don’t presume to come up with great ideas all on their own. But they must be experts at picking and prioritizing the…
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To Test or Not to Test
Your Growth team should subject every decision it makes to an A/B test. The exception to this is rare. Just as importantly, each failed test should not…
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False Confidence
Ask a roomful of people if they are above average at anything—driving, cooking, performing on the job—and more than half of them will raise their hands…
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Tests Are Not Exams Theorem
This is one of the first Lens that I introduce to a team as it is foundational to a successful growth team and alongside the Lens “To Test or Not to…
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Paths to Growth
Become better at Growth Product and Growth Marketing through mostly-coherent ramblings from a Growth professional who has led teams at Playdom, Disney, TuneIn, Brava, and Masterclass.

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