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2. Strong Product Leadership: in strong product companies, the product leaders are among the most impactful leaders in the company.

" Brian and most everyone at the company is comfortable failing publicly , which I admire. But it’s definitely a challenge for us: figuring out how to be more successful merging that vision-oriented approach with an organizational muscle that helps us reduce failure."

Communication & Visibility: You build relationships that help the team get things done. You ensure the product’s story is told, and understood, internally and externally. You create collateral that can be leveraged by GTM teams.

Good product managers know the market, the product, the product line and the competition extremely well and operate from a strong basis of knowledge and confidence. Bad product managers have lots of excuses. Once bad product managers fail, they point out that they predicted they would fail.

Good product managers err on the side of clarity vs. explaining the obvious. Bad product managers never explain the obvious. Good product managers define their job and their success. Bad product managers constantly want to be told what to do.

The typical time horizon for a product team’s north star, or long-term vision, is three to four years out.

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