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How to Harness the Power of Self-Awareness and Emotional Intelligence to Productise Oneself?
A Guide to Personal Growth and Self-Discovery
The Path of Product Management & Entrepreneurship
I started as a product manager, and it is a fundamentally different role. When you enter an organisation, you become a leading character in the company’s narrative. This feeling of being integral to the story is exhilarating, making the role so appealing to those on the outside.
The universally accepted definition of a product manager at the confluence of UX, Tech, and Business only emerged in 2011. Everyone I knew in the role was navigating it through trial and error.
One common strategy we all seemed to have mastered was “Faking it until making it.” I quickly discerned that this approach was a shared one.
Navigating the Field — Tools, Techniques & Self Reflection
We are seduced by the idea that using the latest frameworks, implementing Agile or Jobs to Be Done methodologies, and setting OKRs will save our companies and guide our products on the right path. We elevate trends, jumping from one to the next.
Consultants with significant marketing efforts often push these new silver bullets to sell something new. Frameworks and tools have become the new panacea.
We are inundated with so much BS that it causes us to question a fundamental truth we’ve understood since childhood: the importance of human identity and how relationships and communities form the fabric of society. At the core, humans are at the foundation, at the heart of our communities. No frameworks or tools will help you change people.
The process of learning tools and frameworks is akin to mastering katas and techniques in martial arts. It’s rehearsing the principles of combat in mock trials without truly understanding how to fight. The only way to truly learn it is to be thrown into the fray.
A crucial element of combat is the mindset. If the mind wanders or worries about others’ opinions, the fighter will forget everything they’ve learned. Currently learning boxing, one lesson stood…
