14 Habits of Highly Effective Product Managers

Always prioritize tasks that unblock your team members.Ask your team members often: What’s slowing you down?Look around corners—what’s a looming soon-to-be blocker that you can keep from becoming a blocker?

Forward examples of great work to your teammates’ managers.Highlight team member achievements in your team meetings and email updates.Start a “#team-huzzah” type Slack channel to celebrate wins, big and small.

Some ways to build this habit:When reviewing new designs, always bring people back to “what problem are we trying to solve here?”When you get a hint that team members are misaligned (e.g. quoting data not everyone has seen, optimizing for different goals, shifting priorities), just say “We may be misaligned on this, what’s your understanding of X?”... See more

4. Great PMs hunt for misalignment and quickly push everyone back into alignment

6. Great PMs ruthlessly prioritizes, both the team’s work and their own

Some ways to build this habit:Ask your manager (and ideally a trusted peer) to actively give you brutally honest feedback on your docs, meetings, and presentations.Leverage the Minto Pyramid and the SRC framework when crafting an argument.Start a “swipe file” where you save examples of well-executed documents, emails, presentations, etc. which you ... See more

9. Great PMs frequently remind teammates of how their work connects to the mission

5. Great PMs always have a point of view, but loosely held

13. Great PMs amplify the successes and contributions of team members

2. Great PMs build an aura of “I’VE GOT THIS”