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Event Notes: The Secret of Effective Influencing
Being able to effectively influence others is very important, if you need to move projects forward with limited resources.
Event Notes: People + Environment = Outcome
Some say good attitudes = good outcomes. But good managers know that this is not true. Here’s a framework from my coworker on developing people.
Our favorite adventures in 2019
Check out the Chinese version 《我们的2019年之最》.
Partnerships between Product Managers, Designers, Engineers
At the end of the day, maintaining a healthy partnership is really a balancing act. It’s not about who wins, but find out a way to make all of us succeed.
Book Notes: Be an Effective Executive
Peter Drucker pointed out what’s most important for a knowledge worker: use your mind, not just your hands. Being effective is not about following orders and get them done right, but figuring out what’s the right thing to do in the first place.
Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise. John Tukey
Book Notes: Crucial Conversations — How do you make a decision?
A very interesting framework on the four methods of decision making learned from my manager Carlo based on the book Crucial Conversations.
Event Notes: Jobs-to-Be-Done Framework
Sketchnotes and thoughts from a talk on JTBD framework.
Event Notes: Design with AI
In the event Design User Experience Driven by AI, Paul Lambert (Product Manager) and Annika Crowley (Interaction Designer) from Google gave us great talks on how Gmail designed the Smart Compose feature, and five strategies to create great user experience with AI (see sketchnotes).