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Maintaining (Not Managing) A Team: Product Manager VS Leader
The battle between who is better at maintaining a team has been fierce
“Product manager is a married husband. A leader is a single bachelor.”
Developing a product is easy. Maintaining it? That’s the tough part.
Hiring and marketing your business to people is easier. Retaining them? That’s hard.
Hiring people isn’t the end. It’s the start. Sure you need a product manager for your business otherwise which there is no discipline, hence no business.
But, too often, we, product managers destroy our product, hence company by destroying the team.
But it doesn’t have to be like that. Product managers are capable of doing great when they wear the leadership hat.
For some personal reasons, our product manager had to be out of town. He is a great leader, rather than a manager. We got an alternative, but the lessons I learned from her were amazing.
Product Management Isn’t Leadership
Product management is one thing. Leadership is another. Leadership is what you need to hit for.
Leadership is why people continue to work without getting a salary for 7 months…
