Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager | Andreessen Horowitz

All of those excellent product management skills will go to waste if the product manager alienates his engineers and can’t earn their respect. Product management is a job where you have to lead without authority. The only way to get great work done is to bring the team onboard with your vision.

A sense of curiosity and passion for the product is very important as well, as is developing empathy for the customer – if the PM doesn’t care about the product, it will show in the quality of product in many different ways.

The successful product manager must be the very best versions of smart, creative, and persistent.