Smart: Guide for Product Managers

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Contents

INTRODUCTION

DESIGNING

PACING

VISIONEERING

PLANNING

EXECUTING

SOLVING

MEASURING

PERSISTING

SUCCEEDING

LAUNCHING

LEARNING

SELLING

LEADING

COLLABORATING

MANAGING

COMMUNICATING

SIMPLIFIYING

GARDENING

APPRAISING

OPTIMIZING

TRANSFORMING

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

A warm sun rises every morning in Belize, coming up over the Caribbean Sea as the owner of the small café on Caye Caulker brews a lively pot of freshly roasted coffee. He built this establishment; ran the electric wiring, installed the plumbing. How did he come by his knowledge, the business savvy, food service and construction skills?

Water, electricity; they are all a flow man; a flow, he says. Once you know the flow, you can do most anything.

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INTRODUCTION

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At the westernmost end of the chain of Micronesian islands known as the Palau Archipelago in the South Pacific, there’s an island named Peleliu.  On the beach there sits a rusting U.S Army Landing Vehicle Tracked, left where it came to rest in 1945. Walk up, examine it closely and you will notice that despite seventy years of exposure to corrosive salt air and jungle humidity, one end of this vehicle’s axle shines brightly, as if newly polished. That axle was manufactured in Detroit in the 1940’s. We don’t know who made it; and the recipe, the knowledge, that it took to forge that alloy has been lost. This metal will never be made again.

While the world’s volume of information grows each day, its interesting to note that all manner of knowledge is also lost.  Consider:

●  Ancient native languages disappear daily as the last speakers of ancient cultures die off. Their ways of knowing and understanding the world are permanently lost to us

●  A famous brewery nearly lost the recipe for brewing its celebrated beer. No one had written it down, even as the last knowledgeable brewer retired

●  Baby boomer retirement is gathering momentum; the loss of engineering and managerial expertise is difficult to