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**Product Management is not about frameworks. Yes, using some frameworks that fit well in your situation can save us a lot of time by organizing our thoughts and allowing us to collaborate better.And before there were frameworks, there were mindsets.****In this episode we are talking about a couple of mindset that help product managers and anyone who is building products to align better with the chaotic nature of our work.Our guest on the show is Assaph Mehr, a product and people leader. He is currently a Senior Product Manager of AI at Squiz, a Product Management Advisor & Mentor at My Mentor Path, a thought provoking blogger, and an author (or several ward-winning stories of Togas, Daggers, and Magic series - for lovers of Dark Urban-Fantasy Detectives and Ancient Rome!).****On the episode, Assaph shared with us two of those mindsets - VUCA and Cynefin, and how they relate to our jobs as product people.**Join Matt and Moshe as they explore with Assaph:
- How he got to product management
- His experience building AI products, and some of the challenges they raise
- What are these two mindsets all about (and how to pronounce Cynefin!)
- How to understand, and harness Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity (VUCA)
- The balance between all of these, and how each of our domains can have a different mix
- Is it possible to quantify things like uncertainty or complexity?
- How he defines strategy
- The 5 domains of Cynefin, and the importance of fitting our problem to the right domain
- Can Product Managers impact their orgs to think in these ways?
- Can product job seekers test organizational fit by probing to see if they have the right mindset?
- And so much more…
You can connect with Assaph at:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/assaph/)
- Blog: https://assaph.substack.com)
- Blog post about Cynefin and VUCA: https://assaph.substack.com/p/cynefin-and-vuca) *** ******
You can find the podcast’s page, and connect with Matt and Moshe on Linkedin:
- Product for Product Podcast - linkedin.com/company/product-for-product-podcast)
- Matt Green - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattgreenproduct/)
- Moshe Mikanovsky - linkedin.com/in/mikanovsky/)
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