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Adam Kalsey

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Daily Reading from February 21, 2011

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21 Feb 2011

Links to what I’ve been reading recently.

  • The Four-Minute Email Newsletter — "Seven steps to spending less time in the email newsletter machine I’ll start out by saying that you’re just about as likely to put together an email newsletter in four minutes as you will be able to truly implement The ..."
  • Klout for Business: A Useful Metric –but an Incomplete View of Your Customer — "Special Treatment of Select Customers Isn’t Anything New Just as companies have been treating wealthy customers, or customers who are more likely to spend more with preferential treatment, there’s no surprise that some companies plan to segment customers based by ..."

Recently Written

Roadmap Outcomes, not Features (Sep 4)
Drive success by roadmapping the outcomes you'll create instead of the features you'll deliver.
Different roadmaps for different folks (Sep 2)
The key to effective roadmapping? Different views for different needs.
Micromanaging and competence (Jul 2)
Providing feedback or instruction can be seen as micromanagement unless you provide context.
My productivity operating system (Jun 24)
A framework for super-charging productivity on the things that matter.
Great product managers own the outcomes (May 14)
Being a product manager means never having to say, "that's not my job."
Too Big To Fail (Apr 9)
When a company piles resources on a new product idea, it doesn't have room to fail. But failing is an important part of innovation. If you can't let it fail, it can't succeed.
Go small (Apr 4)
The strengths of a large organization are the opposite of what makes innovation work. Starting something new requires that you start with a small team.
Start with a Belief (Apr 1)
You can't use data to build products unless you start with a hypothesis.

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