Noah Weiss: belief

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…What that makes me think about is I taught a course on product management at one point that I paused for now of just the core job of a PM is to figure out what's next for every single person on the team. There's this meme or GIF of a dog on a train and he's just laying the tracks as the team is moving forward ahead of them just one step at a time. To do that, this is such an important part of that is just help people make decisions, unblock them. Totally. I'll combine two of these together. One is you do have to have impeccable execution. This is more of a baseline thing. But I've never seen a PM who was disorganized or didn't do follow-up or wasn't clear about expectations or timelines. It's not high in Maslow's hierarchy of PM enjoyment. But I do think it's a baseline expectation. The thing I think is more enjoyable and probably the most important thing in the long-term is focusing on impact primarily to the customer experience but also to the business. I think there's that saying growth solves all problems. I think impact solves all PM issues, which is if a team is consistently building things people love and changing the director of the business, everything else is just an input. I think that focus and understanding as your point about laying the tracks is what direction do you need to go as a team to actually drive that impact? That's probably the single thing that PM can most control. I love that. I always recommend exactly that if your career is not going as well as you'd hoped or you're not getting promoted, it's usually you're not delivering impact, whatever that means to the company. It may be moving a metric may mean building great product that the founders really love.…

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