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How Netflix Built an Innovative Culture by Gibson Biddle

Mind the Product

I started at Netflix in 2005 and in 2010, went to my next startup, Chegg. While most companies add process and rules as they grow, culture helps employees to make great decisions without talking to one another. If executed well, culture is an antidote to talent-sucking, mind-numbing rules and process.

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How High Performance Organisations Innovate at Scale by Barry O’Reilly

Mind the Product

80% of companies think they’re providing a superior proposition, according to Closing the Delivery Gap, the well-known 2005 survey from Bain and Co. At the heart, the issues usually are related to rewarding outputs and not outcomes. Closing the Delivery Gap. Only 8% of their customers agreed.

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How Netflix’s Customer Obsession Created a Customer Obsession

Nir Eyal

In 2005, as I joined Netflix as VP of Product, I asked Reed Hastings, the CEO, what he hoped his legacy would be. Nir’s Note: This guest post is by Gibson Biddle, former VP at Netflix and CPO at Chegg. Gibson is speaking at the Habit Summit in San Francisco on April 11th. His answer: “Consumer science.” […].

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Why Product Management Is Not The Same As Oprah’s Favorite Things

The Product Guy

For example, in 2005 the audience received items such as a Burberry coat, an iPod, and a Blackberry phone, but in 2006 each audience member received a $1,000 gift card and a camcorder and were told to record themselves using the money to do a good deed for someone else. You don’t get to choose the favorite things alone.

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The PM’s Guide To Getting Stuff Done: Tackle Your To-Do List in 3 Easy Steps

UserVoice

As Kenton Kivestu wrote in a post about skillsets for PM success , “Just like a product that tries to do everything, a PM that tries to do everything will fail.”.

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In My Humble Opinion by Thor Mitchell

Mind the Product

As Ken Norton wrote in his 2005 article, How to Hire a Product Manager : ‘No one asked you to show up’. This is why… You Are Not All That. As a Product Manager, he says, it’s easy to believe that you are important, but for a variety of reasons you are not. Many organisations, large and small, get along fine without a Product Manager.

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The 20th Anniversary of the Minimum Viable Product: What Happened?

DevelopmentCorporate

Steve Blank expanded on it in 2005 with the Customer Development Methodology. The Minimal Viable Product (MVP) celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2021. The concept was introduced by Frank Robinson in 2001. In 2011 Eric Reis popularized the MVP concept in his book The Lean Startup.

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