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Moving Past "Hero Culture"

Managing Up

CHAPTER

The Hero Role in Product Management

People like to feel valuable. It's really easy to kind of check that box for yourself by stepping into the hero role. Especially if you have management that's not watching out for it, that's not actively trying to keep it from happening or that doesn't even recognize it as a pathology. You can create sort of this situation if you're not careful where everybody on the team is kind of trying to out hero each other.

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