Articles on building a hypothesis driven mindset, testing assumptions before betting the roadmap on them.
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The point of asking people about your idea isn't to win them over. It's to hear what you didn't already know. The moment you start defending it is the moment you stop learning. Two reflexes worth catching, and one small pause that changes the result.
Hypothesis Mindset/Leadership/Performance/Team/Team Acceleration
They told me I’d be fine in 72 hours. It took 3 years. Two prescription pills triggered a brain injury that turned my world sideways. Doctors called it a rare side effect. They said the symptoms would fade once the drugs were out of my system. They were wrong. Progress during my recovery came unpredictably: […]
Hypothesis Mindset/Leadership/Performance/Team
Most product leaders think their job is to have answers. It’s not. Your real job is to ask better questions: the kind that unlock ideas your team hasn’t thought of yet. You’ll hear some version of ‘test your ideas’ from entrepreneurs, scientists, and product leaders alike. It can come in many forms: Different voices. Same […]
Entrepreneurship/Hypothesis Mindset/Leadership/Performance
This lovely question was once asked of me when I was most vulnerable as a leader. In this issue of Leadership Advantage, we will talk a little about the underbelly of all success → failure. – Andrea Leadership Story: So, how does it feel to fail? It was January 2001. The first Monday after the […]
