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The Innovative Mindset
Written by Linda Zhang
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In The Innovative Mindset, an audio course from Scribd Coach, former product manager and startup expert Linda Zhang shares how you can develop a mindset of innovation to solve problems in novel, effective ways. Drawing on her experience working in tech and independently as an entrepreneur, Zhang explains how you can turn thoughts into insights, how to rewrite the internal software of your brain, how to search for the right problem, and more. She also shares exercises along the way so you can begin putting what you’ve learned into practice.
If we want to maximize our potential over the course of our careers, we need to know how to roll with the punches and develop new solutions that work. Zhang offers an excellent roadmap for tackling such a task.
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Linda Zhang
Linda Zhang is a former big tech product manager, consultant, and founder of Product Lessons, a newsletter where she shares what she’s learned in her career, unfiltered. A Harvard alum, Zhang rapidly rose through the ranks of product management and received an offer from Instagram before choosing to do her own thing. To learn more about Zhang and her work, visit her website, ProductLessons.xyz.
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