Lenny Rachitsky: evaluation

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…Yes. Where they're seeing all these PMs being laid off and just, like, "How do I avoid that?" And this is basically the answer to that, is here's how you avoid getting laid off. There's an interesting implication in what you describe here where you encourage the PM and the product team to think like the CEO. This touches on something I've been meaning to write about, but I haven't, which is a lot of people, there's this argument are PMs the mini CEO? In my mind, the PM is 100% the mini CEO, in terms of they think like the CE or they should within the team. They're the same; their job is to think about the business like a CEO within the team. Obviously they're not in charge of everyone. They can't let get anyone go. The reporting lines are not the same. But I feel like that's a really good lens for the job of a PM, is just you're like the mini CEO on a team, making sure you're building the right things, thinking about the business, solving real problems that matter. I think the way I've come to think about it is that the product manager is responsible for the whole team thinking like a CEO, if that makes sense.…

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