What Buddhism Taught Me About Product Management
Jun 2019
Your job as a PM is to accelerate good ideas and kill bad ones—not to keep your own ideas alive at all costs. The longer you cling to a bad idea because you're attached to it, the worse it becomes for you and the business. Impermanence applies to strategies too.
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