37: Top PMs Share Lessons Learned from the Past Year

In this episode of the How to Succeed in Product Management Podcast, marketing professor Jeff Shulman and The Product Management Center advisory board members Red Russak and Soumeya Benghanem welcome Chris Chestnutt (Nike), Malaika Paquiot (Avalanche Insights), Raul Salcedo (Fluent Inc.), Andrew Nguyen (Bark), Pooja Tripathi (Salesforce), Gordon Ruby (Technical Safety BC), and Sandy Huang (Amazon) to talk about the lessons learned in the past year as they continue to give back to the community and share their knowledge and expertise to anyone and everyone who needs them.

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What to Listen For:

• 00:00 Intro
• 02:58 What have you learned this past year as PM?
• 07:23 Build relationships is not something we can rush
• 10:56 Don’t let naysayers throw you off track
• 15:57 What can you do to help the community grow?
• 23:57 Connect and get involved in the community
• 30:33 Flexibility as an employee, manager, or boss
• 35:22 Practice time boxing
• 42:00 Always ask a clarifying question
• 44:18 Concepts of truth and assumption are irrelevant at any given moment
• 48:42 What are you most proud of?