Fear is not the answer – there is more to gain than lose (or spend)
Believing in and dreaming of success are vital skills for a product manager. So much of the role surrounds concepts such as building a product vision, mission, and strategy and ultimately using these tools to create a roadmap that will manifest these more nebulous concepts. As a product manager, you have to train yourself to visualize. You can’t visualize if you don’t maintain clarity and focus on your goal. It’s all about alignment. You might find yourself saying, “do we have alignment?” over and over again as a product manager to the point where you’ll find TikTok videos joking about product managers saying this way too much. Perhaps what makes it so funny is that alignment is so crucial to the role that the job function itself can be distilled into this one word. You’re creating alignment in all ways. You’re aligning leadership, marketing, sales...
