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Christina Wodtke: evaluation

16 Mar 2023 Lenny's Podcast The ultimate guide to OKRs | Christina Wodtke (Stanford)

“I think one of the things that might be off with a lot of the product management education and conferences is, it's good that they take a lot from UX and it is important to be people-centered, but the reality is the product manager serves the business.”

— Christina Wodtke

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Christina Wodtke
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evaluation
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16 Mar 2023
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Lenny's Podcast

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…Awesome. Final question in topic. You teach product management at Stanford. What's maybe a surprising or contrarian opinion about how to learn to do product management, how to get into product management, how to do product management, from your experience teaching young PMs? I taught it and a bunch of students who thought they were going to be product managers realized that they wanted to be interaction designers and not product managers at all. I think one of the things that might be off with a lot of the product management education and conferences is, it's good that they take a lot from UX and it is important to be people-centered, but the reality is the product manager serves the business. That's their role. Teresa Torres talks about the product trio, right? Trio. Trio.…

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