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Frameworks for increased confidence in decision-making | Itamar Gilad (Product Coach, Google, Microsoft)

Mar 5, 2023

Product Coach Itamar Gilad shares frameworks to boost Product Managers' confidence in decision-making, emphasizing evidence-based strategies and clear communication. They discuss pitfalls of ambitious ideas, Google's project failures, Netflix's transition, JIST framework for success, and favorite books and food.

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Quick takeaways

Building strategies around opportunities aligns with market needs for business success.

Transitioning from engineer to PM involves developing frameworks for decision-making and learning from experiences.

Avoid common strategy pitfalls by adopting evidence-based decision-making using tools like the confidence meter.

Deep dives

Importance of Building Strategies Around Opportunities

Building strategies around opportunities is essential as large, unvalidated strategies often fail due to lack of opportunity discovery. The speaker shared experiences and examples emphasizing the need to align strategies with market segments, strong needs, and differentiation for business success.

Introduction

2min

Navigating Product Strategy: Lessons from Industry Failures and Successes

13min

Analyzing Google's Project Stadia Failure and Decision-Making Risks

3min

Effective Decision-Making Through Continuous Evaluation and Incremental Investments

5min

Navigating the JIST Framework for Product Development Success

27min

Exploring Favorite Books and Food with the Guest

4min

#23: For over two decades Itamar Gilad held senior product management and engineering roles at Google, Microsoft and a number of startups. At Google, Itamar led parts of Gmail and was the head of Gmail’s growth team.

Axel sits down with Itamar to discuss some of the frameworks he's been crafting through his journey and how they can help fellow Product Managers improve their practice.

We specifically dive into how frameworks can help PMs boost their confidence based on evidence and clear communication.

Where to find Itamar

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/itamargilad/
Website: https://itamargilad.com/

Where to find Axel

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/axelsooriah/

About Panash

We provide training and coaching programs to help product professionals unlock their true potential and become high performers.

You can learn more about our programs here: https://www.panash.io/

Our blog contains articles and free resources on key topics for product managers and leaders.

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Show notes and highlights

(01:35) Itamar's background

(03:32) How does the MUST Framework help

(12:42) Biggest traps people fall into when crafting strategy

(18:04) Deferring the point of commitment

(22:52) GIST: a framework to bridge strategy and execution

(35:23) Using frameworks to boost confidence

(44:26) Itamar's Treasure Chest

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