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Get your North Star Metric Reviewed by meDear Reader, To celebrate the 400th edition of this newsletter (🥳), I thought, why not try something different: Share your current North Star Metric and some high-level context with me through the form below, and I'll send you a personalized review video - for FREE and without AI processing. Just me, in front of a camera, sharing my thoughts on your North Star Metric. There's no hook, catch, or upsell. Just hit the button below, submit the form within the next 48 hours, and give me a few days to get back to you.
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1 tip & 3 resources per week to improve your Strategy, OKRs, and Discovery practices in less than 5 minutes. Explore my new book on realprogressbook.com
Product Practice #405 How to treat Prototypes as Decision-Making Tools PUBLISHED Apr 23, 2026 READ ON HERBIG.CO From Strategy Choice to Planned Experiments in One Workshop In my upcoming live remote workshop From Strategy to Discovery, I take you from sharpening your Product Strategy, to defining leading indicators for measuring progress, all the way to prioritized assumptions you need to derisk end-to-end. Three 4h Live Sessions - Lifetime Material and Recording Access - Real Results Join...
Product Practice #404 Linked Better Practices over Stacked Best Practices PUBLISHED Apr 16, 2026 READ ON HERBIG.CO Dear Reader, During a recent webinar, someone asked a question I had to think about a bit longer: "What do you do when your strategy is still early, and you're not sure if it's right?" The answer that popped into my head was based on an incredible piece of advice (or admission) I received from a former boss 10+ years ago: No one knows if their strategy is right in the beginning,...
Product Practice #403 Linked Better Practices over Stacked Best Practices PUBLISHED Apr 9, 2026 READ ON HERBIG.CO Dear Reader, During my last webinar on Connect Strategy, Goals, and Discovery with Progress Wheel, I asked people which part of their work is most prone to Alibi Progress. Almost everyone who chimed in named OKRs. And that's because many OKR cycles start the same way for teams: Someone opens a spreadsheet, fills in three to five semi-random metrics, and picks a value that isn't...