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Vikrama Dhiman

Head of Product

Gojek

🚀 Career & Leadership (1)👥 Team & Culture (1)📈 Growth & Metrics (1)

Key Takeaways

  • 1.Early career PMs should obsess over 'Output' (execution) rather than Strategy; earn the right to strategize by delivering reliably.
  • 2.The '3 W's' of career growth are: What you produce, What you bring to the table, and What's your operating model.
  • 3.Product artifacts (PRDs, memos) are your resume; their quality demonstrates your depth in data, design, and tech.
  • 4.Effective collaboration means raising difficult issues without being a difficult person to work with.
  • 5.When transitioning to PM, focus on mastering two out of three hard skills first: Data, Tech, or Design/Research.
  • 6.Career stagnation often comes from telling yourself limiting stories (e.g., 'I am high agency' as an excuse for being rude).
  • 7.Benchmark your skills against the best in the industry, not just the best in your current team, to maintain a high rate of learning.

Methodologies(3)

🚀 Career & Leadership

A diagnostic tool evaluating a PM's value based on tangible output, the intellectual depth they add to that output, and how they interact with the organization.

Core Principles

  • 1.What You Produce (Output): Focus on tangible deliverables (shipping features, running experiments). Essential for early career.
  • 2.What You Bring to the Table (Impact on Impact): The quality of your artifacts (PRDs, Strategy Docs). Demonstrates depth in Data, Tech, Design, and Strategy.
  • 3.What's Your Operating Model: Communication and collaboration. How you influence stakeholders and organize the community.

"The mistake I see a lot of product managers make is they start operating in either output or outcomes... You always, always have to have the output and outcome even when you're moving up."

#career#growth#leadership
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👥 Team & Culture

Three mantras to guide behavioral interactions with stakeholders, ensuring the PM is viewed as a leader rather than a blocker.

Core Principles

  • 1.Raise difficult issues without being difficult to work with (Move from emotional to logical arguments).
  • 2.Bring out important topics without drawing importance to yourself (Focus on the product/user, not the ego).
  • 3.Ensure decisions are made without making all the decisions yourself (Facilitation over dictatorship).
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"Raise difficult issues without being difficult to work with. Bring out important topics without drawing importance to yourself."

#stakeholder#collaboration#triad
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📈 Growth & Metrics

Evaluates PMs on 8 axes. For growth/transition, PMs should pick 1-2 'hard' axes to master first based on their background before tackling Strategy.

Core Principles

  • 1.The 8 Axes: Data, Design/Research, Technology, Strategy, Communication, Collaboration, Organizational Skills, Community.
  • 2.Transition Leverage: If coming from Tech/Data, focus on Design/Research. If from Design, focus on Data/Tech.
  • 3.Focus Strategy: Don't try to improve all axes at once. Pick the one that gives maximum leverage for the current role.

"You can't improve on every single area... Pick which is the area which is the maximum leverage for you."

#8-axis#skills#leverage
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