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PM team meetings should occur one to two times a month; weekly meetings become redundant with 1:1s, while less than monthly loses alignment benefits.

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Remote work leads to increased miscommunication, and the key to good relationships with remote engineers and designers is maintaining clarity through writing things down, screensharing, and postmorteming everything shipped.

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The most effective way to motivate engineers is to connect their daily work to their personal goals such as wanting to become a manager, start a company, or get promoted.

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All you really need for your team to excel is smart and motivated people; if engineers consistently take too long to ship, either intelligence or motivation is the issue to diagnose.

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The most effective leaders place the team above themselves by deflecting credit and giving presentation opportunities to other team members, which strengthens the team's efficacy.

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Podcast Moments

Megan Cook00:00:18
“I think often when there's difficult conversations, or those conflicts come up, you can put them off until they become much bigger. Or if somebody is conflict adverse, they can try to avoid having it at all. But by having a specific slot of time in your week for something like that, then you're sort of in that mindset.”

Lessons from Atlassian: Launching new products, getting buy-in, and staying ahead of the competition | Megan Cook (head of product, Jira) · Megan Cook

Ryan Hoover00:00:00
“You have to put on this space of confidence externally and internally as well, where people need to trust you. You also don't want to subject them to the same anxiety that you're feeling and be a 100% transparent.”

How to launch and grow your product | Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt and Weekend Fund · Ryan Hoover

Cutting Room Floor

Guest insights on this topic that Lenny hasn't (yet) written about in his newsletters. Potential material for future posts.

Megan CookUnsynthesized
“I think often when there's difficult conversations, or those conflicts come up, you can put them off until they become much bigger. Or if somebody is conflict adverse, they can try to avoid having it at all. But by having a specific slot of time in your week for something like that, then you're sort of in that mindset.”

Lessons from Atlassian: Launching new products, getting buy-in, and staying ahead of the competition | Megan Cook (head of product, Jira) · Megan Cook

Ryan HooverUnsynthesized
“You have to put on this space of confidence externally and internally as well, where people need to trust you. You also don't want to subject them to the same anxiety that you're feeling and be a 100% transparent.”

How to launch and grow your product | Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt and Weekend Fund · Ryan Hoover