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Published · transcript-backedNoah Weiss: belief
23 Jul 2023 Lenny's Podcast The 10 traits of great PMs, how AI will impact your product, and Slack’s product development process | Noah Weiss (Slack, Foursquare, Google)
“I think that's the most dangerous piece of advice ever in the history of product management because I think that is how you end up having PMs who try to act like dictators instead of leaders and facilitators.”
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- Noah Weiss
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- 23 Jul 2023
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- Lenny's Podcast
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…What I think about here is a lot of teams don't want PMs on their team or don't like PMs or don't think PMs are valuable. What I find is that just means your PMs not good because if you have a good PM, they're just going to help you do the best work of your life. They're going to help you clarify things, prioritize well, unblock you, all that stuff. Totally. I wish should find out who wrote that expression early on of PM should be mini-CEOs. I think that's the most dangerous piece of advice ever in the history of product management because I think that is how you end up having PMs who try to act like dictators instead of leaders and facilitators. Because if you're acting like that, yeah, your team can completely reject you and say I never want another PM again. Yeah. So many UPMs are just like, "I'm finally going to have the power, finally." If they move from engineering or some other role and then they get there like, "Oh, what the hell? Is that to convince everyone of all these things I want to do?"…
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