Ravi Mehta
Product Leader & Coach at Former CPO at Tinder / Product at Facebook, Tripadvisor
Ravi Mehta is a product leader and coach, former CPO at Tinder, and product leader at Facebook and Tripadvisor, known for his frameworks on PM competency assessment and leadership coaching.
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Episode Summary
Ravi Mehta introduces his scalable leadership matrix, arguing that selective micromanagement is sometimes the right approach when you lack confidence in your team's direction — a contrarian view in a culture that demonizes micromanagement. He shares frameworks for PM competency assessment and explains how to lead differently based on your confidence level and team capability.
Leadership Principles
- → The ideal is scalable leadership — feeling confident about direction while your team has autonomy
- → Selective micromanagement is the right answer when you don't feel confident in your team's direction
- → Micromanage tactically and temporarily to help teams understand the right direction, then pull back
Notable Quotes
"Your ideal goal is to lead in a scalable way — you feel confident about direction and your team has autonomy. But there's another effective way: selective micromanagement."
— On the leadership matrix he uses when coaching product leaders
"If you don't feel confident in the direction your team is moving, the right answer is not to be hands-off. The right answer is to micromanage, but do it in a very tactical and temporary way."
— On when micromanagement is actually the right leadership approach
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