Dear fat friends,

See words such as face! The third one!! (crying also want to finish 12 letters), do not waste everyone to the little fat man’s love.

The weather in the south is hot and cold, from short sleeves to coat and then to take off coat, we adjust ourselves according to the weather. It is the same with work, especially the seemingly glamorous job of product manager. People who do not know it feel high and noble, but the bitterness of it may only be realized when you are engaged in this industry.

Our last two letters focused on logical thinking, the economic basis of the product manager, and product design ability, the product manager’s key skill. One is the internal work of the product manager, the other is the external work of the product manager. Both complement each other and are indispensable.

But everything needs to be a triangle to stand firm and not fall over. Therefore, if logical thinking ability and product design ability are the two feet of product manager, we need to find the focus of product manager.

Being A qualified product manager may require doraemon’s unlimited skills, but one oft-mentioned ability is perhaps the most important of all.

Therefore, the third letter xiao Pang will introduce to you is the most important part of product manager – the ability to resist pressure. It can be said that its utility can help the dangerous building in both fall, help the building will tilt!

Wang Dazhuang’s 3-year “Anti-japanese” movement (picture imagine ING – teh ~)

Year 01: Let the storm hit harder!

Just entered the workplace, how to do?

  • Work attitude
  • Quality of work
  • Working methods

1. Absorbent sponges

Every product newcomer or workplace newcomer is like a hungry sponge, like to absorb new knowledge and skills as soon as possible, have a studious heart. At this time, the attitude of most new employees is very positive, even praiseworthy.

Many friends always feel that there is no end to the strength, always feel that you can do more to learn more, to make the storm more violent enough.

To take advantage of this, older employees often hand over dirty work to newcomers that no one else thinks is important. On the one hand, from practical consideration, product rookie really can not do much work (not all and absolutely), it is a learning process; On the other hand, there are high value and low value work content in work, as a newcomer sometimes have no choice but to accept these seemingly unimportant work.

In this case, there are two main changes: one is that some people will think that what they are doing is not satisfying, or thinking about the future will not feel interesting, and they will jump ship or “follow the crowd”, thinking that they are getting a bargain. The other, on the other hand, does the work on time, quality and quantity, and draws useful conclusions, innovates, and develops a way of doing things on your own.

The point is that when faced with such a choice, if there is any advice, think of sponges.

In fact, there is a great trust chain problem in the relationship between people. The stronger the trust chain is, the closer the relationship will be. Of course, the so-called circle may also be formed, but sometimes the circle is like the whirlpool in the middle of the water. So, to get into the center of the vortex, give yourself and others plenty of time to circle.

During this time, try to soak up your sponge rather than splattering.

Good work attitude, the cultivation of good work attitude, is the real beginning of the workplace, whether product manager, or any other occupation.

2. I’m afraid of being serious

With the sponge heart in place, it’s time for the hands-on part. Chairman MAO said, the world’s most afraid of serious two words. So what exactly is serious at work?

If senior managers have low expectations of 0-1 year old product managers, how can they better gain the recognition of senior managers and leaders?

In fact, this is another way of asking how to do serious work.

After many years, Wang Dazhuang (our hero) can also lead interns and recruiters, when he stood in the position and perspective of the “senior”, suddenly found that many things are different from the previous view.

Later, Wang Dazhuang simply summed up a few examples of product recruits in terms of work details and work quality, and as his future recruitment and training of new recruits basic entry norms, just like the door rules.

— Typos: The product dog has to write a lot of documents and emails every day, it is inevitable that there are no typos, but Dabang Wang’s interns can’t; Although it seems to be a simple typo, it is as terrible as a time bomb in the eyes of predecessors.

— Wording: The wording of daily communication should be strictly separated from that of written articles, just as it should be separated from business and business;

There should be a deadline for everything to finish. There should be progress reports every day.

Time concept: promised things do not delay, do not allow;

Design level: the degree of seriousness and attention of prototype design, if there is a little creativity, it will be better;

Initiative: the task assigned by the boss is not equal to the homework handed in by yourself. Excellent answers must exceed full marks!

Prioritize and communicate

After working for a few years, you will find that all work is a process of communication and re-communication, and the final result.

Therefore, When Wang Dazhuang started his work after graduation, he also encountered some problems that newcomers have encountered. For example, he always said that he would never refuse new external jobs and new demands. He always thought that the more the better.

In fact, here to remember the highlights: First, all new jobs can be repeated communication, including upward communication and downward communication. First of all, we should make clear the downward communication. First, we should repeatedly confirm the purpose and important time nodes of the requirements. Second, we should also understand the workload and work status of the corresponding development colleagues and design colleagues, and do not go overboard or blindly just “spread the sound” and “requirements”. Second, prioritize everything. At work, we will often encounter such a situation, everyone who tells you about the work will say that their needs are very anxious, feeling that they will die if they don’t finish today. In fact, in fact, I have never seen what big problem happened if I don’t finish today. (Here is not to teach you not to work hard, their own experience).

In fact, at the beginning of the work, although things look a lot, on the one hand in addition to messy, on the other hand due to their own skills are not skilled, therefore, in the context of clear priorities, we must work overtime to learn their weak skills.

The 2nd year: thousand mill thousand strike also strong, Ren Erdong southwest north wind!

What happens when you become a module owner?

  • Work attitude
  • Quality of work
  • Working methods
  • With a team

Distance shows a horse’s strength, time shows a person’s heart.

This applies not only to one’s relationship to others, but also to one’s perception of oneself. From the perspective of social psychology, people always overestimate their own abilities and always have higher fantasies about their “works” and their “limits” than reality, but they are completely unaware of all this.

Now is the time to get down to the point of the third letter – stress tolerance.

Small fat actually think 1 year at work, at that time the pressure isn’t, then the pressure out of the campus and entry at the beginning of a new, faced with the problem of the is due to their deep in 12 years in the ivory tower while strongly not to adapt to the cause of real work, so, for such a product manager is more “cruel” industry, Xiao Pang thinks our pressure probably starts from the second year of work.

There was a weak rain and a sudden wind last nightCopy the code

From the beginning of the “let the storm come more violent”, to work 1 years after the understanding of rain sparse wind suddenly after the “green fat red thin”.

Many lessons of life, there is no teacher, there is no standard answer.

In fact, in the second year of work, some people may have a change in their work attitude. On the one hand, their work is gradually on the right track, so it is less fresh; On the other hand, human beings, as social animals, are also highly susceptible to the influence of the surrounding environment. One by one, the atmosphere and characteristics of each company may gradually influence each new employee.

Everyone’s freshness time for a new thing is very short, let alone work. How many people think work makes people happy? According to the law, people can not be excited all the time, therefore, different attitude, may face the same amount of work everyone’s psychological feelings will change.

Secondly, according to the 80-20 principle, the success rate of each person is about 20%. Similarly, in a company, there are only a few “outstanding people”, and the rest can not be said to be not outstanding, but really not so outstanding. And these two kinds of people’s attitude towards life and work is there will be some differences, this little fat does not want to demonstrate too much, can only say borrow an ancient saying: choose its good and from it.

If the first year is a small seedling in the greenhouse, then the second year is really into the field.

2. I mean itCopy the code

One can do many things, but it’s great to be able to do the same thing for many years.

Many people like Luo Yonghao, in fact, there is a reason, because he “serious” this cattle force blowing for many years, so many people also believe.

Maybe other people’s attitude and concept we can not accept all according to the plate, but the attitude of serious work should become the professional ethics and norms of every workplace worker!

As a matter of fact, a person’s character is often reflected under great pressure.

The world is most afraid of serious two words, if the mood is bad, attitude problems, then please live up to their own each work and task.

3. Kill the boy in your heartCopy the code

Maturity is not equal to age, but more to do with mind.

In fact, everyone refuses to grow up in his heart, because he has to bear more responsibilities and bear a lot of pain and helplessness that he does not need to bear when he is a child.

Psychologically speaking, there are two people living in everyone’s heart: a boy and a man. This is not a transition from a physical boy to a man, but a manifestation of mental maturity in psychology, and there is no distinction between male and female. Specific can refer to this book “king, warrior, priest, poet”, a very interesting book.

One of the important manifestations of boys is that they pay too much attention to their own feelings, that is, they will become the “slaves” of their own, while men are able to become the “masters” of their own, not only thinking about their own feelings, but more thinking about things themselves.

4. Take the leadCopy the code

After working for two years, Wang Dazhuang has become a small leader of the project team (maybe more of a product module). Although he is not a big official, he is leading eight or nine people to do projects. There’s a couple of interns down there who need to bring their own. In addition, Wang Dazhuang suddenly found himself in addition to the job, usually also want to attend a few meetings, although mostly inexplicable, suddenly called.

Fortunately, Wang Dazhuang was a minister of the student Union when he was in college, so he was quite comfortable with the project and team. But is the so-called difficult to tune, with with Wang Dazhuang also found some problems.

-- Some people on the team are less productive; -- Some people are not very motivated; -- The team was split into two or three smaller groups; -- There's another employee on the team who's two years ahead of meCopy the code

The problems encountered by Wang Dazhuang are quite common. However, as a new leader, what should he do?

In fact, there are probably the following methods: do not, their own withdrawal; Can not do, upgrade to find leadership; They cry silently; Ask questions and define methods and solutions.

For this lesson of life, opinions differ, which has a lot to do with their own personality.

Wang dazhuang then used the fourth plan. For low efficiency and low enthusiasm partners in the team, write to them to clarify the project objectives, as well as the benefits that the project may bring to them and the possible punishment if they do not do well; It is hard to say that there is a universal solution to the problem of self-proclaimed small groups within a team, but more team building can be done on a regular basis. People are social animals, and Chinese culture has its own characteristics. There is no contradiction that cannot be solved at one meal. In view of the problem of the old staff within the team, this is also a normal problem, in fact, here should learn to make good use of the old staff, the old staff have rich experience, but the old staff most need everyone, especially the new people’s respect and love, specific will have some targeted methods to deal with respectively.

Year 03: He is strong, he is strong, the wind blows the hills.

What happens when you become a project/product owner?

  • Work attitude
  • Quality of work
  • Working methods
  • With a team
  • Make products (achievements)

Most of us grow in our first three or even two years of working life, but our careers don’t necessarily have that much time to waste.

1. Businessmen and feelingsCopy the code

By the third year of his work, Wang had become the person in charge of an important product in the company. His friends came and went, and gradually he was no longer confused about things he had been confused about.

In fact, after two years of work exercise, most of us have formed their own work attitude and methods, and so on. At this time, as a qualified product manager, we should focus more on the product itself.

In our work, we all emphasize the goal, or we often hear the results-oriented, when we make a product, is it for their own pleasure, their own happiness, can only say that this is not important, what matters is whether the user is happy, whether people are willing to use, whether people are willing to pay.

Therefore, as a product manager at this stage, the most important thing is to find out the business goals of their products, so that their products and projects can survive and have more next steps.

In fact, we can completely treat this process as a startup. Of course, the company can help pay for the project when it dies, but if the project dies, it will be a huge loss for the product manager. When you think about it, how many 3-years are there in your life?

At this time, what we have to face is no longer pressure from parents, but more pressure from management, KPI, and of course, our own small ideal.

2. Build your brandCopy the code

We can say that since Facebook became popular, brands are no longer just about one company or one product, but now everyone is a product manager and everyone is building their own brand.

As just mentioned, if as a product manager, you have a successful commercial product, then your brand may be XX CEO, XX entrepreneurial mentor, no longer a simple “worker”. For example, if you are the big V of Douyin and Weibo, you also have some value outside of work.

Similarly, in a company, we should also have our own brand and form our own unique value.

You may be the person in the department who knows the most about data analytics, the person in the department who knows the most about movies, etc.

In fact, more importantly, if we build our own brand, then every work we do is to serve for this, so we must take it more seriously, dare not careless.

It’s really hard to stay awake and withstand this constant pressure to build your brand.

3. Develop your own routinesCopy the code

I talked about personal branding, so I have to mention work routines in terms of working methods.

If personal brand is a person’s famous brand, then work routine is a person and a product’s business philosophy, which is difficult to change once determined.

It’s not unusual to hear someone say that someone is difficult to communicate with, that someone has a temper, and that someone is very strict, while the other is amiable. These are all external manifestations of different styles of work routines.

In each workplace couple form their own work, in the process of routine is actually quite hard, on the one hand, we will take the initiative to go with predecessors study, on the one hand, his work practice and reading, may our personal work discussion is gradually formed, but in the process, formed the hard only everyone knows, Because it’s a process of breaking down one’s sense of self and reinventing it.

Fat people are harmless to the world, Wang Dazhuang always said.

In the work is also the same, Wang Dazhuang may be the usual kind of amiable, but work is very strict that kind of person.

Which is better is a matter of opinion.

A good man helps three menCopy the code

A fence three stakes, a hero three help.

The model of the modern corporate system determines that nothing can be done by one person alone, we always have this and that or this and that cooperation. At the same time, we can not leave the group, can not leave the team, after all, the work has been so hard, why not find a few people to share.

Product manager can be said to be the hub of the chain of “demand – product design -UI design – technology development – product testing – product online operation”. Therefore, if you want to perform a good show and do a good table, you must need the support of upstream and downstream. The higher the support, the better the product is likely to do.

In this small part, Wang Dazhuang has some key words for you:

- respectCopy the code

What is respect? Respect for good people, and respect for those you don’t approve of, is the first paradigm of communication.

Do not go easily at random evaluation is not your professional field, for instance, do not easily evaluate whose technology is good, who is not good, do not evaluate whose design is good-looking, who is not good-looking, from your mouth must contain evidence. Take facts as the basis and deal with them, not with them.

Target -Copy the code

If something goes wrong with the team, it’s either the leader or the boss, not a member of the team.

Follow your goals before, during, and after any project. Your goal could be to change the world in a big way, or make your friends richer and richer.

The point is, set your goals and don’t change them easily.

- emotionalCopy the code

Many people say that China is a humane society, aren’t other countries? Since we are human beings, we have seven emotions and six desires, and we are close and distant.

So, work is more than work, and it’s important to build relationships with team members, but it’s not just “dinner.”

5. There are no excuses for failureCopy the code

If we’re covered for the first two years, from the third year on, it’s probably just you.

In the first year of work, our pressure actually mainly comes from ourselves, from our own inadaptability to the new environment; The second year of work, mainly from the influence of the surrounding relationship, from their own excessive fear of the future; But now, it is a new kind of pressure, which comes from the outside as well as from himself. The motivation of pressure includes not only the requirements for himself, but also the responsibility to the team and people around him. It can be said that in the third year of working, the product manager has changed from a child to an adult.

Therefore, the handling of new pressures at this stage is an important indicator of how far a product manager can go in the future.

At this stage, you are the loneliest, you can only win, can not lose, if you win to the next level, if you lose to wait for a new opportunity, and the waiting time is different from person to person and uncertain.

Conclusion: anti “day” is not easy, and line and cherish

If the first two letters friends feel more relaxed, then the third letter is a little heavy, but xiao Pang thought, people are not long memory, let us feel the work of the three different stages in advance, is also a good thing, anyway tomorrow you may forget what I said. Hahaha ~

Of course, each family has its own story, and each person’s experience is different. Maybe Wang Dazhuang came through this way, or maybe others just had a smooth ride.

But one thing can be confirmed, the pressure must be not small, the product has a dream, entering the line need to be cautious.

— Love your little fatties

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