Zhang: Product leaders need flexible strategies and rituals over rigid roadmaps
Jiaona Zhang · Jiaona Zhang: Why All Product Teams Should Have a Scorecard & How to Use It | E1154 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · May 17, 2024 · at 44:26
Jiaona Zhang (Chief Product Officer at Linktree) explains how product teams maintain agility without chaos during periods of rapid industry disruption.
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“So it's actually really easy to update your strategy and have that flow through versus if you have plans and processes and, you know, these rigid roadmaps and you're like, I think the world works in a certain way. It is much harder to be a product leader in that world. Cause you're like, the ground is changing underneath me all the time. But if you're not like that, if you're like, I really have sweated the details of my strategy. I know what new information coming in would make me change aspects of the strategy. And I have enough of a system in place with my rituals, but they're not so rigid as to like, This is the exact like step-by-step process that something needs to flow through. That gives you the agility with enough structure to not be like complete chaos, right? It gives you enough of the combination of like agility and structure so that you can get, you can catch these waves and catch the new things coming out.”
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