Mastering Product Management | 17min snip from Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth

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The 10 traits of great PMs, how AI will impact your product, and Slack’s product development process | Noah Weiss (Slack, Foursquare, Google)

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career

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Mastering Product Management

This chapter outlines the key principles for building diverse and effective product development teams, emphasizing the importance of varied backgrounds and risk tolerance. It discusses essential traits for successful product managers, including execution, decision-making, and communication skills, while also addressing common misconceptions about PM roles. The conversation highlights the need for PMs to foster collaboration and create impactful outcomes for both customer experience and business growth.

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Noah Weiss is Chief Product Officer at Slack, where he leads all aspects of the product organization, including the self-service SMB business, the team that launched huddles and clips, and the search and machine-learning teams. Prior to Slack, Noah served as SVP of Product at Foursquare. He started his career at Google, leading the structured data search team and working on display ads. In today’s episode, we discuss:

• The top 10 traits of great PMs

• How “complaint storms” helped Slack teams foster empathy

• How Slack’s product team is approaching AI

• “Comprehension desirability” and other key factors leading to Slack’s success

• Why you should be customer-aware but not customer-obsessed

• Important areas of growth for both new PMs and senior PMs

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Find the transcript at: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/the-10-traits-of-great-pms-how-ai

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Where to find Noah Weiss:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/noah_weiss