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Martin Eriksson has 25+ years experience building world-class online products in both corporate and start-up environments for global brands such as Monster, Financial Times, Huddle, and Covestor. He is the Founder of ProductTank, the Co-Founder and Curator of Mind the Product, and a Product Partner at leading venture capital fund EQT Ventures. He is also the author of the best-seller <em>Product Leadership, How Top Product Leaders Launch Great Products and Build Successful Teams</em> (O'Reilly, 2017).

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<p><a href="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/product-management-newsletter/"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-10080" src="//wp-content/uploads/2017/01/prioritised-newsletter-300x169.jpg" alt="Prioritised Product Management Newsletter" width="300" height="169" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/prioritised-newsletter-300x169.jpg 300w, /wp-content/uploads/2017/01/prioritised-newsletter-768x432.jpg 768w, /wp-content/uploads/2017/01/prioritised-newsletter-1024x576.jpg 1024w, /wp-content/uploads/2017/01/prioritised-newsletter-285x160.jpg 285w, /wp-content/uploads/2017/01/prioritised-newsletter-570x320.jpg 570w, /wp-content/uploads/2017/01/prioritised-newsletter.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a>Every week we curate the best product content from across the web into our <a href="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/product-management-newsletter/" target="_blank">weekly product management newsletter <em>Prioritised</em></a>. As a great way to catch up and start 2017 full of great new insights, here are the top 10 most read pieces from the past year of newsletter curation.</p>
<h2><a href="http://www.mironov.com/8mistakes/" target="_blank">8 Mistakes You’ll Make as a Product Manager</a></h2>
<p>Rich Mironov highlights some mistakes most first-time product managers make – even after coursework, certificates, and online tutorials.<br />
<a href="http://www.mironov.com/8mistakes/" target="_blank">The trick is to only do them once&#8230;</a><br />
<span style="font-size: 9px;">[MIRONOV]</span></p>
<h2><a href="https://medium.com/product-hunt/9-useful-apps-for-product-managers-86e8200e39c3" target="_blank">9 Useful Apps for Product Managers</a></h2>
<p>If you’re looking for applications to help make your workflow more organized and efficient, here’s a list of nine great products to try.<br />
<a href="https://medium.com/product-hunt/9-useful-apps-for-product-managers-86e8200e39c3" target="_blank">We all love new tools, right?</a><br />
<span style="font-size: 9px;">[PRODUCTHUNT]</span></p>
<h2><a href="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/product-requirement-documents-must-die/" target="_blank">Product Requirement Documents Must Die</a></h2>
<p>Product Requirement Documents are simply the worst possible way to bridge the gap between the customers’ needs and the team that are trying to build the solution.<br />
<a href="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/product-requirement-documents-must-die/" target="_blank">These are not the requirements you&#8217;re looking for</a><br />
<span style="font-size: 9px;">[MIND THE PRODUCT]</span></p>
<h2><a href="http://firstround.com/review/the-recursive-product-strategy-that-musk-used-to-build-an-empire/" target="_blank">The Product Strategy Elon Musk Used to Build an Empire</a></h2>
<p>The temptation is to immediately aim for the level of ambition of Musk’s end goal rather than draw guidance from his process for realizing it.<br />
<a href="http://firstround.com/review/the-recursive-product-strategy-that-musk-used-to-build-an-empire/" target="_blank">Shhh. Don’t tell anyone!</a><br />
<span style="font-size: 9px;">[FIRSTROUND]</span></p>
<h2><a href="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/tools-use-product-manager/" target="_blank">The Day-To-Day Product Management Toolkit</a></h2>
<p>In this talk from ProductTank Oslo, Janna Bastow focuses on practical advice: What tools should you use as a product manager, and how do you use them?<br />
<a href="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/tools-use-product-manager/" target="_blank">We do love us some good tools</a><br />
<span style="font-size: 9px;">[MIND THE PRODUCT]</span></p>
<h2><a href="https://uxstudioteam.com/ux-blog/ux-minimum-checklist/" target="_blank">The Six Things Every Product Team Should Do</a></h2>
<p>After years of working with teams in small and big companies, David Pasztor shares his Minimum UX Checklist for product teams.<br />
<a href="https://uxstudioteam.com/ux-blog/ux-minimum-checklist/" target="_blank">Is your team doing the minimum?</a><br />
<span style="font-size: 9px;">[UXSTUDIO]</span></p>
<h2><a href="https://medium.com/@cwodtke/three-jobs-of-product-management-9e006f944bc7#.80wosx2xg" target="_blank">The Three Jobs of Product Management</a></h2>
<p>If you are a product manager, you always have more work than you can do. The only question is which work will you spend your precious hours on?<br />
<a href="https://medium.com/@cwodtke/three-jobs-of-product-management-9e006f944bc7#.80wosx2xg" target="_blank">Depends how mature your team is&#8230;</a><br />
<span style="font-size: 9px;">[MEDIUM]</span></p>
<h2><a href="https://medium.com/@hemal/the-modern-day-good-product-manager-bad-product-d5b537398e3a" target="_blank">Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager Revisited</a></h2>
<p>Hemal Shah from Twitter shares his updated version of Ben Horowitz&#8217;s classic Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager for today&#8217;s product managers.<br />
<a href="https://medium.com/@hemal/the-modern-day-good-product-manager-bad-product-d5b537398e3a" target="_blank">Always be learning</a><br />
<span style="font-size: 9px;">[MEDIUM]</span></p>
<h2><a href="https://shift.newco.co/the-manifesto-of-ruthless-prioritization-ea9f61c1285#.p2qe61uxt" target="_blank">The Manifesto of Ruthless Prioritization</a></h2>
<p>Every company needs to be smart when setting their priorities but John Vars from TaskRabbit argues that startups need to be ruthless.<br />
<a href="https://shift.newco.co/the-manifesto-of-ruthless-prioritization-ea9f61c1285#.p2qe61uxt" target="_blank">Don’t fall in love with the product, fall in love with the mission</a><br />
<span style="font-size: 9px;">[NEWCO]</span></p>
<h2><a href="http://melissaperri.com/2016/07/14/what-is-good-product-strategy/" target="_blank">What is Good Product Strategy?</a></h2>
<p>Most companies fall into the trap of thinking about Product Strategy as a plan to build certain features and capabilities, but when we treat a product strategy like a plan, it will almost always fail.<br />
<a href="http://melissaperri.com/2016/07/14/what-is-good-product-strategy/" target="_blank">No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact</a><br />
<span style="font-size: 9px;">[MELISSAPERRI]</span></p>
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<h2>Want even more catch up reading?</h2>
<p><a href="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/what-we-learned-building-products-people-love-2016/" target="_blank">What we learned about building products people love in 2016</a><br />
<span style="font-size: 9px;">[MIND THE PRODUCT]</span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/top-10-product-talks-2016/" target="_blank">Top 10 Product Talks of 2016</a><br />
<span style="font-size: 9px;">[MIND THE PRODUCT]</span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/top-10-product-guest-posts-2016/" target="_blank">Top 10 Product Guest Posts of 2016</a><br />
<span style="font-size: 9px;">[MIND THE PRODUCT]</span></p>
<p><a href="https://medium.com/@sicross/the-product-manager-s-essential-reading-list-for-2016-c7fd4c0491bf" target="_blank">The product managers essential reading list</a><br />
<span style="font-size: 9px;">[MEDIUM]</span></p>
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