In today’s episode, you get to know Erez Naveh, Head of Product at Facebook Tel Aviv, Israel and is in-charge of the Onavo project. Erez shared about their vision and mission statements and why they change their algorithm recently, making it more geared to family, friends and the community. He also talked about policies and processes that they implement in Facebook that would help a lot of people on having good organizational management.

According to Erez, there are two things that he would take and change on the way he acted before in running his own company:

• Be driven by impact. In order to know what the right impact is, you need to have a clear vision.
  • Once the vision is very clear, everybody is aligned to the vision and all the team is measured based on the impact, there'll be no argument and conflict.
• HPM document - Highlights. People. Me.
  • At the end of the week, each team writes this document and circulate it. This is how the entire company is updated on the highlights, on their people and on personal happenings of each individual. This is important to measure the team progress.

Erez also talked briefly about Onavo and its impact on the community. He also shared his journey from doing a start-up to his current career. He talked about the role of a product manager. He stated that it mainly depends on the team and the product itself. Half of what he does is business development and forming collaborations with companies outside of Facebook.

Quote:

"In order know to what the right impact is, you need to have a clear vision."
"You can't just squeeze the lemon all the time."

Useful Links:

Facebook
Onavo
Google
Google Docs