Jon McNeill
11 things in productivity Jon uses or recommends, from 1 episode.
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Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"One of the hacks that I learned from Elon was that, oh, you do this final interview where you're cultural imprinting on everybody and you're explaining to them, here's how the culture works. Here's the currency of success here... That is the purpose of the final interview, is to do that cultural imprinting."
Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"This came from Calvin McDonald, who was the CEO of Lululemon at the time. If I was hit by a bus tomorrow or if I was fired, what are the immediately obvious things that my successor would do? And then he would ask himself, why aren't you doing this? It was a real refresh for him and for his leadership team, and it was super healthy. So yeah, I borrowed that from Calvin."
Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"He describes this tool set to me that he uses called Follow Me Home... I remember Woody and his team ran this exercise, Scott's Follow Me Home exercise, with our driver team. And they came with these brilliant insights that led the product roadmap for Lyft for about a year... It's completely helped me be a much more effective product leader."
Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"We put a leaderboard up on every store, and the leaderboard was number of sales that month, and we drew a line almost arbitrarily in the middle of that chart, and people would do a lot to get above that line even though nobody explained what the line was for."
Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"Do you think we could try to run the organization on three-sentence emails? First sentence is here's my problem. Second sentence is here's what I think the solution is. Third sentence is here's my next step, and if I need resources or permission, ask in that sentence. And so we started to experiment with this, and it was really the key to communicating with him because he likes that sort of concise, get-to-the-point."
Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"Work blocks where I can totally concentrate. I shut down everything else and I just work that one thing. And it tends to be higher quality because I'm not switching back and forth, and I've got a longer period of time so I'm not time pressured to make progress. I've got two or three hours to really wrestle with something and get it off my plate."
All 11 of Jon's productivity picks
- Cultural Imprinting Final Interview Uses and recommends it "One of the hacks that I learned from Elon was that, oh, you do this final interview where you're cultural imprinting on everybody and you're explaining to them, here's how the culture works. Here's the currency of success here... That is the purpose of the final interview, is to do that cultural imprinting." Only Jon
- Fire Yourself Exercise Uses and recommends it "This came from Calvin McDonald, who was the CEO of Lululemon at the time. If I was hit by a bus tomorrow or if I was fired, what are the immediately obvious things that my successor would do? And then he would ask himself, why aren't you doing this? It was a real refresh for him and for his leadership team, and it was super healthy. So yeah, I borrowed that from Calvin." Only Jon
- Follow Me Home Uses and recommends it "He describes this tool set to me that he uses called Follow Me Home... I remember Woody and his team ran this exercise, Scott's Follow Me Home exercise, with our driver team. And they came with these brilliant insights that led the product roadmap for Lyft for about a year... It's completely helped me be a much more effective product leader." Only Jon
- Sales Leaderboard Uses and recommends it "We put a leaderboard up on every store, and the leaderboard was number of sales that month, and we drew a line almost arbitrarily in the middle of that chart, and people would do a lot to get above that line even though nobody explained what the line was for." Only Jon
- Three-Sentence Emails Uses and recommends it "Do you think we could try to run the organization on three-sentence emails? First sentence is here's my problem. Second sentence is here's what I think the solution is. Third sentence is here's my next step, and if I need resources or permission, ask in that sentence. And so we started to experiment with this, and it was really the key to communicating with him because he likes that sort of concise, get-to-the-point." Only Jon
- Time blocking Uses and recommends it "Work blocks where I can totally concentrate. I shut down everything else and I just work that one thing. And it tends to be higher quality because I'm not switching back and forth, and I've got a longer period of time so I'm not time pressured to make progress. I've got two or three hours to really wrestle with something and get it off my plate." +6 others
- Cultural Imprinting Interview Uses and recommends it "One of the hacks that I learned from Elon was that you do this final interview where you're cultural imprinting on everybody, and you're explaining to them here's how the culture works. Here's the currency of success here." Only Jon
- Impact vs. Effort Matrix Uses and recommends it "The last step of the decision process is literally creating that 2 by 2. What is the impact versus the effort of doing this? And then how does that stack up against the other stuff we have on our plate? And that last effort versus impact chart for me helps me figure out where we allocate our capital and our time." Only Jon
- Chatham House Rule Uses it "We would get together on a quarterly basis for a day and a half or two days, lay out the biggest problem we were facing. Total Chatham House rules, it's total confidentiality." Only Jon
- Touch It Once Uses it "One lean manufacturing technique rule is you touch it once. So that means if I open an email, I'm answering that. I've touched it. I only want to touch it once. I don't want to put it back as unread and then touch it again later." Only Jon
- Vertical and Horizontal Mentors Recommends it "There's a vertical mentor, which means somebody has been down the path ahead of you... Then there's horizontal mentors, which I found to be equally valuable, and those are peers that are going through the same stuff you are... So you need to have both in your life constantly if you can, and it's a total hack." Only Jon