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Reasons to Become a Product Manager
Become a product manager if you are fulfilled by:
- Solving people’s problems 🙇♂️
- Driving business growth 📈
- Working closely with a variety of people 👨🎤
- Developing a strategy 🤔
- Getting shit done ✅
- Leading a team 🤝
- Communicating often and broadly 🗣
- Making decisions 👍
- Creating amazing experiences for people 👌
- Being organized, detail-oriented, and prepared 😎
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Reasons to not become a Product Manager
Do not become a product manager if you are primarily fulfilled by
- Appreciation 🥳
- Having your way 😑
- Being left alone 🚨
- Always being right 🤓
- Designing or building things yourself 👩🎨
- Everyone liking you 🥴
- Flow states 🧘♂️
- Avoiding meetings 🤐
- Avoiding email ✉️
- Avoiding people 🤨
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The four most common paths into PM
- Internal transition at a large company — Generally the easiest and quickest route.
- Finding a junior PM role at a large company — Likely the most common route, but is limited to companies with APM or internship programs.
- Joining a startup with a burning need — The key to this route is having connections with startup founders, showing a lot of hustle, and delivering success when you are given the chance.
- Starting your own company —This is by far the most work-intensive path, and rarely planned, but hey, it works.
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The seven core skills to build
- Taking any problem and being able to develop a strategy to resolve it.
- A PM that is good at nothing else but execution is valuable to a team.
- Communication. Everything you do as a product manager is done through writing, speaking, and meetings.
- Leadership through influence.
- Making decisions, informed by data.
- Building great products, and having taste. You are building a product for other people, and so you’ll want to build some experience doing this.
- Always being prepared. Having the “I got this” aura.
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Executing well is like captaining a tight, smooth-sailing ship. You need to make sure that everyone knows what they need to do and then does it, that the crew hums together in unison, [and] that you estimated the journey well enough to have packed ample supplies.
JULIE ZHUO
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The decisions PMs make are the ones that unblock their team so they can continue to build. They don’t need to make every decision, but they are responsible for ensuring a decision gets made — whether by them, their team, or their stakeholders. Product managers are the hedge against indecision.
BRANDON CHU
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Product intuition is a skill: it is the observation of human behavior, trained by data, and applied to software.
MERCI VICTORIA GRACE
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