Want to know the secret to growing your career?
1. Grow your network
2. Help others
If hard work led to success, then the donkey would own the farm.
Practicing without measuring is just going through the motions.
A promotion isn't permission to do higher level activities; it's recognition that you already are.
I have been having this same discussion with one of my PMs and it's oddly a struggle to get the point across.
There a few reasons why I run ultramarathons, and this is one of them.
Instead of under-promising and over-delivering you should over-prepare and over-deliver.
I spent 10 years working to be great at Product Manager tools and process before I realized that I should have been getting great at people all along.
Aa a Product Manager, how much value can you actually deliver for the business without engineers? It should be a non-zero amount.
Finally experienced ChatGPT hallucinating and it reminded me of someone I work with. ๐
You can't tell how good or strong you are unless you have taken yourself over the edge a bit.
Ask yourself, "How am I complicit in creating the environment I say I dislike?" It's uncomfortable and powerful. Then get to work changing the things that you can.
In any work task you do, make sure you understand the value you are providing. Too often I see Product Managers asking their stakeholders/audience to do the heavy lifting.
I recognize any and all genders. ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
AI isn't going to replace Product Managers, but it's certainly going to change our work. What work do you WANT AI to do for you? #productmanagement
The single most important skill for a Product Manager is emotional intelligence. #productmanagement
Listening on my long run today!
Test Your Limits
If it was as hard to get into a Twix as it is to get into a walnut, I would be much fitter.
Network Solutions is trying to tell me something...