Head of Product and Technology, @gonoodle // Bourbon drinker, music lover, traveler // Formers: @bizjournals, @CNN, @lasvegassun, @nypost // Love and trust ☘🏀
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Joined April 2008
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Kyle Ellis retweeted
I am constantly in awe of Walt Disney's brilliance.
It's crazy to think about how this diagram he drew in 1957 is as accurate today as it was back then.
Kyle Ellis retweeted
product people want a magical framework or process that solves everything.
if anyone is promising you that, RUN! it does not exist.
product is hard. there's no "fill in the blank" solution, but there are proven practices that, when done correctly always deliver results:
Kyle Ellis retweeted
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare." - Muhammad Ali
Kyle Ellis retweeted
taking care of yourself is so net positive because it signals to yourself that you are worthy of being taken care of, which increases your confidence, which makes you a more active human in the world, which lets you engage more meaningfully in experiences, which makes life better
Kyle Ellis retweeted
As a PM leader, editing is probably your most important new job
You will be constantly editing
- new feature proposals
- key metrics
- goals/OKRs
- mocks
- milestones for P0 projects
- hard tradeoffs
- pre-launch product quality
So pay attention to getting very good at editing.
Kyle Ellis retweeted
"Time off from work is a good thing. But workers deserve something much better than a mental-health day: jobs that don’t strain their mental health in the first place." An excellent article highlighting how "wellness days" aren't enough. Do you agree?: bit.ly/3OBeAfg
Kyle Ellis retweeted
A shorter work week benefits people and workplaces.
4-day pilot in dozens of companies for 6 months:
✔️Burnout, stress, anxiety drop
✔️Pace increases, revenue up 8.1% (37.6% over prior year)
✔️Satisfaction, balance, exercise, leisure, sleep improve
Nearly all plan to continue.
Kyle Ellis retweeted
user research enables teams to understand a user’s unique problems & evaluate solutions that delight them & serve the business.
teams that do it well have superpowers. they can de-risk ideas early saving their teams time and money.
it is our job to become experts on our users.
Kyle Ellis retweeted
Still one of my favourite articles about the role of the Product Manager.
"A PM with a high EQ has strong relationships within their organizaton and a keen sense of how to navigate both internal and external hurdles to ship a great product.
hbr.org/2017/12/what-it-take…
Kyle Ellis retweeted
You are not your job.
You are not your job.
You are not your job.
You are not your job.
You are not your job.
Kyle Ellis retweeted
Formula 1 is a $13 billion global behemoth.
But — until 2019 — it failed to crack the US market.
Then it launched Drive To Survive, the most effective content campaign in history.
Here’s a breakdown:
Kyle Ellis retweeted
Personal branding becomes so much easier when you realize it's just being yourself and talking about things you are passionate about.
Kyle Ellis retweeted
Worthy Read: Product Discovery: Pitfalls and Anti-Patterns
by Chris Jones (@cjones_sf)
bit.ly/3DlNinb
#prodmgmt #ux
Kyle Ellis retweeted
Danny Meyer (@dhmeyer) on doing a good job at the front door
Couldn’t just about every business benefit from this thinking?
Kyle Ellis retweeted
Netflix Director Mike Cessario sold $130M worth of water last year.
His company Liquid Death is dominating the water industry with edgy branding and masterful storytelling
Here's how it grew to a $700 valuation overnight
