"your name has come up more times than almost any other product person when I ask people for their favorite product leaders in Asia I created a career growth framework for product managers which compri..."

"heads all things product at goek including product management design program management resarch search and insights with teams across India Singapore and Indonesia he has previously worked at companie..."

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"times than almost any other product person when I ask people for their favorite product leaders in Asia and you're also the third guest from gojek so there's definitely something in the water over the..."

"half I've had the opportunity to work with some really strong product managers learn from strong product managers and some of them have had rapid career growth when I was younger and I was starting of..."

"bit more about each one of these W's yeah I would love to I love that you you put the word what at the top and that makes it the three W's which is which is clever because I find even if the acronym i..."

"career management ladder so that is is very very critical that as you are producing even when you are at the senior most levels don't forget your IC Roots don't forget the IC component and sometimes i..."

"output but it fell into the overall outcome the way I would I think about what you're describing which I actually 100% agree with is when you're starting out in your careers execution is where you nee..."

"drive more Impact versus it's not actually that important in in the early career uh so I'll give you my example in one of my previous roles there were two product areas that were important for the org..."

"absolutely and it's not just when you are starting off or when you are young even if you are senior and you're starting off with a new team even if you're starting with a new company you need to have ..."

"model which I feel is the most important thing which you have to have to focus if you are going from mid senior to senior level this is essentially about communication collaboration organizational ski..."

"yourself I like this list a lot it reminds me there's this product leader I worked with who this team kind of got pushed to do a bunch of stupid stuff and he realized later that like hey I it's it's a..."

"ensuring that your team is getting unblocked and not getting to do work on anything which is uh stupid or is likely to be changed uh then you really got it do you have any advice for how to push back ..."

"their career any pitfalls do you find are important to try to watch out for I think part of it is on a lot of us in product leadership space we've not done a very good job in defining uh rubrics growt..."

"your relationship with change again when you are younger when you're starting off rate of change is crazy you are growing almost every six months you are picking up skills in experimentation you're pi..."

"hyper collaborative person so it's okay if sometimes I'm not very decisive if I'm not moving fast and so on because I'm this kind of a p so it's very important that you check for what are the stories ..."

"the most uh memorable story about yourself but it is definitely one of the enabling stories as well similarly I think one other thing that I used to say about myself was more that I'm very high agency..."

"to the next area then move on to the next area and so on obviously if you are floundering in something if you're really negative in something then you fix that first because that will give you the hig..."

"will miss there will always be a new context there'll always a new set of stakeholders new company cultures that you have to adapt to for others uh you have to see that what gives you the maximum uh l..."

"that thread that's really interesting and so the the approach is you have this access of skill sets and you pick for this person moving from say customer service to product here's the two things you n..."

"well similarly there's another the person who took uh who was originally from research and again uh worked a lot on our products including our Enterprise product and uh she's doing an amazing job as w..."

"Kota and I mean that literally I use Koda every day to help me plan each episode of this very podcast it's where I keep my content calendar my guest research and also the questions that I plan to ask ..."

"can't do them you you see yourself as playing a role and not your title and not your function and that just clarifies a lot of things for uh people and different people will play different roles and t..."

"context uh especially for teams which are becoming more remote or teams where uh people are not collocated or they're distributed that Community aspect becomes a very very important part that product ..."

"it's a one of the skills which uh is relatively easier to Define uh where you don't have any Tech understanding like if somebody asked you what is HTTP or API or Internet and you'll be like okay I don..."

"uh level as well amazing thanks for sharing that I think for people that are trying to craft career ladder for product managers this could help inform the way they think about this by the way when we ..."

"uh with them um second thing I think where I feel that it's very it's become I don't know is it contrarian or it's become Politically Incorrect is that you still need to put in the effort and a number..."

"uh we'll have people post in the comments if there's anything else they would love to ask you with that we've reached our very exciting lightning round are you ready yes first question what are two or..."

"movie but um also had a pretty good uh uh message I know it's uh probably not the movie which anyone would want to cite it but I think it's um sometimes good to just watch uh good entertainment that's..."

"do you have a favorite interview question that you like to ask candidates when you're hiring product product manager especially so it's not really one question but uh what I like to do with them is to..."

"Direction which uh usually uh goes in the right way is there a favorite product you've recently discovered that you really love so the reason why I've not watched a lot of the uh drama or TV recently ..."

"together on unlocking the lfic aspects of it the storytelling aspects of it the content cutting part of it and even the selection uh of the stories uh part of it and what I'm told is that uh since I'v..."

"and do what you want uh right now so good it's not too late I really really like that advice my wife is a illustrator designer she has a book that she put out called overthinking this it's in my backg..."

"Chinese you'll get that and uh you so you pick what works for you I love that picr I feel like we've produced both a lot of output and we're going to have really great outcomes from our conversation t..."