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The many Personas of the successful Product Manager

  As a Product Manager, to be effective you have to wear many hats  Observer:  See customers markets and teams for what they are  See what others do not  Listen deeply without speaking  Prophet:  Sets the vision through identifying the truth via deep observation  Profound insight and unabashed confidence to see and then build  Knows what to do next where others are uncertain  Strategist:  Sets goal and initiatives  Defines a strategy that is market and customer-driven  Defines what want and how to get there  Tracks goals and makes changes to the plan accordingly  Accountant:  Own the performance of the product and their strategy  Determine how to measure  Dashboard of performance metrics  Live by the metrics and take account on an ongoing basis  Aligner  Driving strategic alignment within the product and the product team  Ensure that the strategy is deeply linked to the day to day work   Builds cross functional plans  Driver:  Pushing the team harder to get the work done Responds to re
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