Chris Spiek
@chriscbs
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Developed and popularized Jobs to be Done as Founder at The Re-Wired Group. Now Chief Product Officer @autobooks_. Advisor @giftearlybird and @thepodcastapp.
Joined August 2007
I use a little tool called the "fit check." Here's how it works. (Thread)
@rjs How do you track trade-offs for each of the UI ideas? When having two different concepts, I sometimes struggle with my team to clarify and document the trade-offs of both. I.e., more complex UI to try and solve more user needs VS a simpler UI for consistency & maintainability.
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Sharing out more of the tools that my team uses alongside JTBD and ShapeUp to ship quickly and effectively. The Fit Check Method:
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Working through a complex problem in a meeting usually feels like trudging through mud to me. Every potential solution surfaces new challenges and the exercise gets harder and slower as the meeting...
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Want to be a better leader? Make sure 10% of people hate your guts. I’m serious. Here’s why: 🧵
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If you treat your employees like adults, you can demand that they behave like adults too. That means no babying, no lying, no pampering. The result will be grown up partners focused on a joint mission to enjoy wild success together. This is actually the easiest way to be a CEO.
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1-1s, performance reviews, exec meetings, internal comms, HR, comp policies, titles, Sales, Marketing, and on and on and on. Question it all. The greatest companies reject the shitty status quo and have so much more success and fun along the way.
After two decades of trying all the grown up company shit they say you have to do I am of the firm belief that 100% of it is absolute fucking bullshit. It was all designed for shit companies with shit cultures and shit leaders. Reject it all. Go your own way. And thank me later.
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After two decades of trying all the grown up company shit they say you have to do I am of the firm belief that 100% of it is absolute fucking bullshit. It was all designed for shit companies with shit cultures and shit leaders. Reject it. Go your own way. And thank me later :)
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It's exciting to see smart people working on this. People polled will say they don't trust it, but they'll still consume it (dopamine/validation/emotion-seeking). Someone will innovate and figure out how to compete with something that helps people make more productive progress.
Trust in the media has hit an all-time low, which is a tremendous opportunity. I'm working on something.
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Decks are worse than documents. Far worse. It's why we don't create decks for internal or external communication at 37signals. Not one. No Powerpoint, Keynote, Slides, whatever. There's no presenting, only communicating. If we want to communicate an idea, a direction, a
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A new Jobs-to-be-Done interview is live! This was a tough one. A combination of mistakes that I made with the screener, plus a somewhat challenging conversation makes for an interview worth unpacking and discussing! This one is for paid subscribers only - thanks for the support!
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Christopher Alexander wrote a lot about “unfolding.” Unfolding is the process of learning what something should be by working on it.
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A new Jobs-to-be-Done interview is live! This week Romeo tells us how he came to buy his first electric bike. One interview leads to at least two product opportunities, and it's a great reminder of why we invest in doing these #jtbd interviews. https://t.co/ly2kjmTSIT
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I find it distasteful, almost unethical, to say this when you have 18 million subscribers. Hard to explain why, but with great reach comes great responsibility. Potentially killing someone else’s nascent project reeks of carelessness. First, do no harm.
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This has been a blast so far. The collection has grown to seven full-length video Jobs-to-be-Done interviews. If you’re working on getting better at applying the #jtbd framework I hope this helps you! https://t.co/Vopyo9otLN
Embarking on a personal project for a few months. I’ll be doing jobs-to-be-done interviews on a variety of products+services and sharing out everything: how I recruit, my notes, the recording, and my thoughts about the interview. I’m eager to hear your suggestions for topics. If
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A new jobs to be done interview video is live on Substack! This week we uncover the jobs that people hire the Stitch Fix subscription box service to do. https://t.co/ihqb64cgRC
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If you're trying to make product decisions based on casualty, you need to know how to tell a good JTBD interview from a bad one. In this week's interview we explore how to identify and avoid bad interviews, and how to handle it when things go wrong. https://t.co/1IODpAv4Ef
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