How to Lead in Product Management: Practices to Align Stakeholders, Guide Development Teams, and Create Value Together

by Roman Pichler

Additionally, many people have a specific time when they are most creative and productive. Mine is in the morning; I tend to be most creative between 8:00 and 11:00 a.m., and hence I tend to block that time for demanding work.

What is my creative time?

focus your efforts, consider setting yourself a daily goal. Spend a few minutes in the morning planning your day, and decide what the main thing is that you want to achieve and what the desired outcome should be. Take into account any commitments in your calendar to ensure that your goal is realistic. This technique helps me direct my work; it prevents me from being reactive and jumping from one task to the next, depending on what seems to be most urgent, and it provides me with a sense of satisfaction: When I look back at the day in the evening, I know I have done something meaningful—worked towards my goal and hopefully achieved it—in addition to smaller, urgent tasks that had to be tackled.

There is more to life than work.