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How Corporate Values Get Hijacked and Misused

Harvard Business Review

People are selected, evaluated, and trained on how to embody them. “Urgency” suddenly becomes a value when time to market cycles are industry lagging and pressure from the Board is mounting. First, accountability for living them exists top to bottom.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

And here’s an interview with Sam Lessin , former VP of Product Management at Facebook, who says he has “never successfully trained empathy.”). And if the product has market fit, there is an established customer base and performance baseline to work from vs. guessing until you get it right. Company Fit.