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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

A PM with a high EQ has strong relationships within their organization and they have a keen sense of how to navigate both internal and external hurdles to ship a great product. Managing tight deadlines, revenue targets, market demands, prioritization conflicts, and resource constraints all at once is not for the faint of heart.

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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.