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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

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. Pro: Breakthrough technology can offer customers things they didn’t even know they needed.

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People Are Angry About Globalization. Here’s What to Do About It.

Harvard Business Review

” I document this extensively in my forthcoming book, The Laws of Globalization , but let’s consider just a few examples. executives feel that they do not generally seem to have the kind of social capital that would cushion against a big sociopolitical backlash. In the U.S., Perhaps U.S. economy on globalization.