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Page 1: Steve Johnson, Purple Squirrels and Other Lies, BoS USA 2016

Steve Johnson@[email protected]://www.under10playbook.com

Purple squirrels and other lies

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© 2016 Under10 Consulting

Candidates with the perfect combination of skills, education, and experience

(and will also work for peanuts)

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What skills are you seeking?

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TECHNOLOGY

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OPERATIONS

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© 2016 Under10 ConsultingMARKETS

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DOMAIN

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PROCESS

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Decision makers, whether CEO or

product manager, need to leverage all types of expertise.

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“The ideal candidate has extensive experience in our technology, business, markets, and domain.”

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Technology

Business

Markets

DomainOperations

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“ Anyone who acquires deep expertise does so at the

expense of breadth.Andrew Hargadon,

author, How Breakthroughs Happen

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Expertise

Products

Dev

Sales

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Expertise

Products

Dev

Sales

Our sales people should

be able to implement my

product. I support 300 products. What are

their names?

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Johnson’s rule of management:

Nothing seems difficult to people who don’t have

to do it.

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“ We value people who are learning machines and are

highly adaptable over people who only bring experience.

David Cancel, CEO & Founder, Drift

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Who’s been hiding their

headcount in product

management?

Exec

How large should a product

management team be?

Sales

Mktg

Dev

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listen

DEFINE DESCRIBE

EVALUATE

ENABLE

RELEASE

SCHEDULE

LAUNCHANALYZE

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DESCRIBE Expertise: Product

LAUNCH Expertise: Market

DEFINE Expertise: Business

SCHEDULE Expertise: Product

ENABLE Expertise: Market

EVALUATE Expertise: Business

RELEASE Expertise: Product

ANALYZE Expertise: Business

PROPOSE DEVELOP DELIVER

Prepared for

ByUnder10 Playbook Canvas™

1609 © 2012-2016 Under10 Consulting, LLC

listen DEFINE DESCRIBE

EVALUATE

ENABLE

RELEASE

SCHEDULE

LAUNCHANALYZE

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DESCRIBE Expertise: Product

LAUNCH Expertise: Market

DEFINE Expertise: Business

SCHEDULE Expertise: Product

ENABLE Expertise: Market

EVALUATE Expertise: Business

RELEASE Expertise: Product

ANALYZE Expertise: Business

PROPOSE DEVELOP DELIVER

Prepared for

ByUnder10 Playbook Canvas™

1609 © 2012-2016 Under10 Consulting, LLC

listen DEFINE DESCRIBE

EVALUATE

ENABLE

RELEASE

SCHEDULE

LAUNCHANALYZE

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“ When I do my job right, there’s no sign of it;

disasters just fail to occur.Herman Wouk

War and Remembrance

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The ideal candidate: one who can learn and gets shit done.

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Don’t look for “purple squirrels.”

Instead, build expertise in all your teams.

And disasters will fail to occur.

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Steve Johnson@[email protected]://www.under10playbook.com

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