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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

Pricing and revenue modeling. PMs have to have a deep understanding of how the organization operates and must build social capital to influence the success of their product – from obtaining budget and staffing to securing a top engineer to work on their product. Feature prioritization and roadmap planning.

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With New York Schools Appointment, Bloomberg Did it His Way

Harvard Business Review

Black has no management experience in education — her entire career has been spent in magazine publishing — and her contact with the public school system in New York has been very limited. Cathleen Black's appointment raises, first, the perennial question: Is leadership a highly contextual capability?