Product Managers often don’t talk enough about leadership. Instead they constrain it through the lens of stakeholder management, e.g. managing up, down, across the org.
I believe leadership is central to a Product Manager’s role. Simply put, leadership in product requires 1) clarity in where the product needs to be, 2) honesty in where the product is today, and 3) a plan and the inspiration to close the gap.
Attribute summary
1. Self aware
2. Inspirational
3. Compassionate
4. Get Things Done
5. Thrives in Ambiguity
Attributes
1. Self Aware
Knows own strengths and weaknesses, centered, transparent, humble, authentic, and driven by values.
The less important a decision, the less information you should try to seek to make it.
Gathering information follows a Pareto principle, meaning you can get 80% of the information quite easily, but getting the final 20% requires a lot of effort.