Strength-Based Teams

2 points by bdickason 5 years ago | 2 comments

>My strengths are zero to one product strategy and deeply understanding people. I wield these to build great early stage products and coach PM’s to help reach the next level in their careers

I'm trying to understand what does the first sentence mean here. Is the author saying he is not good at product strategy and understanding people?

On related note, why does anyone use the style of writing where presence or absence of one word completely changes the meaning of the sentence when there are equally good alternatives to write.

bdickason 5 years ago | |

Hey! Author here :D

I'll try to describe this in a bit more detail: Zero-to-one is a type of product which is created from scratch. At many companies, there are existing products and you add features or improve them to grow them. There are other products where you start something completely new. Think Dropbox launching 'Paper' which is a tool to make documents.

Deeply Understanding People means spending time to interview users or run user research, derive problem statements from those discussions, and then turn those into hypotheses. This is different from some PM's who like to focus on metrics and look for patterns in data.

So I'm saying: My strengths are product strategy (of the zero-to-one variety) and understanding people (vs metrics).

As for the style of writing, I aim to write simply and clearly. I'm obviously not hitting the bar here :) Do you have suggestions for equally good alternatives to this sentence? I'd be happy to update it.