Adam Fishman

EIR & Program Partner

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👥 Team & Culture (1)🎯 Product Strategy (1)🚀 Career & Leadership (1)

Methodologies(3)

by Adam Fishman

👥 Team & Culture

A comprehensive framework for evaluating growth practitioners across four key dimensions to ensure a balanced team, rather than hunting for a non-existent 'unicorn' individual.

Core Principles

1.Don't look for one person who is an 11/10 in everything.
2.Balance skills across the team to cover gaps.
3.Use the model to give concrete feedback (e.g., 'improve loop modeling' vs 'be more strategic').

"The goal of the competency model is not to find a unicorn human being... The goal is to create a well-rounded team."

#growth#competency#team

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Opinionated Defaults

by Adam Fishman

🎯 Product Strategy

A product design principle where the platform uses data to pre-select the best choices for the user, making it 'hard to do the wrong thing' and 'easy to do the right thing.'

Core Principles

1.Identify high-propensity behaviors using data.
2.Set those behaviors as the default state.
3.Add friction to changing the default if the change leads to lower success.

"Making it hard to do the wrong thing... and easy to do the right thing but not eliminating choice."

#opinionated#defaults#strategy

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PMF for Candidates

by Adam Fishman

🚀 Career & Leadership

A decision-making framework for job seekers to evaluate potential employers based on three non-negotiable pillars: People, Mission, and Financials.

Core Principles

1.Time is your scarcest resource; invest it like a VC invests money.
2.Do not settle for 2 out of 3.
3.Conduct 'due diligence' including backchannel references on future bosses.

"You should have a set of criteria that you are unapologetically rigorous around."

#candidates#career#leadership

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