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5 tips to plan my career like I plan my product

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One of the best pieces of advice I’ve heard for career growth is “Build your career like you would your product.” We’ve built up all these skills when we’re planning products, with clear priorities, milestones, tradeoffs, and success metrics. Why wouldn’t we use those skills to support our career too? One leader I worked with took this thinking a step further with an analogy I love: “If you were your product, what changes would you make — and when will you ship your next version?” I try to build the same discipline and fast iteration we bring to our products into my career growth plans. Of course, it often feels a little selfish to focus on my personal growth when there’s so much urgent work piling up in my inbox. But I've found clearing just 1-2 hours a week to invest in myself not only gives me fresher eyes on my day-to-day problems, it's also a service to the people around me. How can I support my team through bigger problems every day unless I’m getting better too? 5 tactics that h

One of the best pieces of advice I’ve heard for career growth is “Build your career like you would your product.” We’ve built up all these skills when we’re planning products, with clear priorities, milestones, tradeoffs, and success metrics. Why wouldn’t we use those skills to support our career too? One leader I worked with took this thinking a step further with an analogy I love: “If you were your product, what changes would you make — and when will you ship your next version?” I try to build the same discipline and fast iteration we bring to our products into my career growth plans. Of…

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