How to Train Your HiPPO: (Highest Paid Person's Opinion)
summary
A dangerous HiPPO derails product work with jerky mandates and gut calls, exemplified by a project that burns $16 million and 18 months and still delivers no value and infamous product flops like the Fire Phone. Concrete fixes are five tested tactics: make the problem visible with histograms portfolio snapshots and value stream maps, ask instead of tell to lower defenses, use the rule of three to present multiple options, apply parallel thinking and simple cost of delay analysis that moves priorities (one item fell from 1 to 9).
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Start
- 15:47Make the problem visible
- 21:40Humble Inquiry
- 27:59Call up System Two'
- 33:11Call up 'System Two'
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