Resources for product teams from industry experts
While product strategy starts with focus, it then depends on insights. And insights come from study and thought. These insights come from analyzing the data and from learning from our customers. The insights might pertain to the dynamics of our business, our capabilities, new enabling technologies, the competitive landscape, how the market is evolving, or our customers.
— EMPOWERED: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products (Silicon Valley Product Group) by Marty Cagan
Personal recommendations go a long way. We trust the judgment of others. It’s part of the fabric of strong cultures. But we don’t trust the judgment of just anyone. We are more likely to trust those who share our values and beliefs. When we believe someone has our best interest in mind because it is in their benefit to do so, the whole group benefits. The advancements of societies were based a great deal on the trust between those with a common set of values and beliefs.
— Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek
We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.
We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.
We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable.
We work with being, but non-being is what we use.
— The Creative Code: The Mysteries of the Creative World Revealed by Noam Manella
Instead of trying to use your technology and expertise to make a better product for your users’ standard behavior, experiment with inviting the users to change their behavior to make the product work dramatically better.
— Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable by Seth Godin
Now that brands are touchable, there’s no reason to think that with some creativity, they can’t create the same emotions as a sports team or a pop culture event. The brand that touches and creates the most emotion wins.
— The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk
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