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My Life between Lake Michigan and Kellogg School

It’s windy today. It always is. Piercing through the layers of clothing, these chilly winds affect me more. Perhaps, when you’re a bit lost you feel it more. However, my cribbing aside, Evanston isn’t a bad place. At least, you can’t hate the super-energetic squirrels of Evanston forever busy digging…

Life Lessons

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My Life between Lake Michigan and Kellogg School
My Life between Lake Michigan and Kellogg School
Life Lessons

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Nov 21

Cricket Last Nights at an English Art Museum

Hi you, Last night, I was in a old, rustic arts museum in south of London and happen to run into Ricky Ponting and Surya Kumar Yadav. Quite a company they were. …

Icc World Cup 2023

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Icc World Cup 2023

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Agile Insider

·Sep 26

Product Manager Interview: How to answer metrics question?

Product metrics questions are common in PM interviews. In this short blog, I will cover how to answer metrics question in PM interviews and share a sample question and answer. To answer metrics question you can use common design thinking approach — go broad to go narrow: Ask clarifying questions…

Product

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Product

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Agile Insider

·Aug 9

Answering Product Strategy Questions — part 2

Following up on the first part of Product Strategy question, in this blog, I will answer a sample strategy question. Question — You’re the PM of Google Maps tasked with presenting a 3 year strategy to Sundar. What strategy will you present? Approach to answer: - Ask clarifying questions to understand…

Product Management

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Answering Product Strategy Questions — part 2
Answering Product Strategy Questions — part 2
Product Management

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Agile Insider

·Jun 20

13 things great PMs don’t do

“When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you” Lolly Daskal. I’ve worked alongside some exceptional PMs during my career at Google and startups. For a long time, I’ve maintained a list of things that great PMs don’t do and that I…

Product Management

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13 things great PMs don’t do
13 things great PMs don’t do
Product Management

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Agile Insider

·Jun 5

A Simple Approach to Product Management Strategy Questions

Summary if you don’t want to read through the details: A good answer includes: why (strategic insights), what (product vision), and how (supplementary details). It’s important to remember not to make it a product design question — focussing too much on features, metrics etc. The most important thing is to…

Product Management

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A Simple Approach to Product Management Strategy Questions
A Simple Approach to Product Management Strategy Questions
Product Management

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May 21

5 Things I Couldn’t Do in The Last Quarter

(Plus a blog that I didn’t publish. I wrote it when I Covid19 stole the last quarter of my MBA school. This was in my draft from 2020, but I never pressed “publish”. Doing that today!) I was never charmed by MBA in the true sense. In the last 2…

Mba

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5 Things I Couldn’t Do in The Last Quarter
5 Things I Couldn’t Do in The Last Quarter
Mba

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Mar 26

Reflecting on a life well lived

Today when leaving the home for the office, I said, “this day would just be over in a moment”. And that’s how it should have been. …

Life Lessons

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Reflecting on a life well lived
Reflecting on a life well lived
Life Lessons

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Agile Insider

·Aug 11, 2022

A simple time management hack for Product Managers

One of the challenges in PM roles is how to find time for long-term, valuable work items. If you don’t exert control on the calendar, one tends to get sucked into a barrage of urgent items that needs our attention but doesn’t result in long-term value. One senior PM at…

Product Management

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A simple time management hack for Product Managers
A simple time management hack for Product Managers
Product Management

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Aug 9, 2022

5 Design Thinking Concepts for Product Managers

I landed upon Design Thinking frameworks a bit late in my career when I was at Kellogg School of Management and attending “Design for Delight” session by Intuit PMs. I found it extremely powerful for product managers. From then on at Kellogg, I attended multiple courses and workshops to get…

Product Management

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5 Design Thinking Concepts for Product Managers
5 Design Thinking Concepts for Product Managers
Product Management

7 min read

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Ajitesh Abhishek

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Product Manager at Google | Runner | Loves writing | Personal Blog-https://xupler.com/ | Speak with me: https://topmate.io/ajitesh_abhishek

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