What was the most important learning you have had as a Product Manager?
Inspired from @salt post in Product Managers channel.
You dont have as much control as you think you do.
The most important learning is to be okay with failing.
Choose your battles wisely. There are only so many debates you can have. There are only so many debates your stakeholders will have with you (happily).
I think product is far better than sales, and that keeps me grateful. Working on new stuff every couple of weeks is intellectually rewarding than just pushing people under you to achieve numbers each week, every month, every quarter till death.
My learning is, so take wins or losses on yourself.
You work in a lot of ambiguous environment. No one gives any sort of direction. This is true regarding strategy side of PM. However, on execution side you have some certainty
Finding a structure and directions in most ambiguous problems. Experimentation brings clarity and data is your best friend, always learn from your engineering counterparts and learn the whole product e2e even the GTM and the sales side and not just the user empathy side.
As a young PM, zindgi me sukoon chahte ho to jabtak salah maangi na jaaye tabtak mat do.
