Did the product manager do their job? Where does their role begin and end?
the product manager is responsible for the product's success...
simple. But....wait....
1/n There are many $ successful products that are terrible for humans (both inside/outside a company). Is that success?
Did the product manager do their job? Where does their role begin and end?
There are many ways that short term success can come at the expense of mid/long term impact
In an early startup, company/product are inexorably linked. In a more established company "the product" may be one of a dozen bets, most which will fail.
What if it doesn't believe that their products can be a source of differentiated, sustainable mid/long term growth?
Is the role responsible for success *insofar as success is defined*? Something else? Who decides/defines?
...while others believe that the PdM should frame context/opportunities and let passionate problem solvers do the rest.
There are examples of both doing well in context.
Is one "right"?
...while others are about spreading the "responsibility for product success" to everyone.
There are examples of both doing well in context.
Is one "right"?
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So I'd recommend reading this thread from Dave, but I thought about some of these policies, and how they fit into the whole, a lot, and want to offer a different interpretation.
I think California is world leading on progressivism that doesn't ask anyone to give anything up, or accept any major change, right now.
That's what I mean by symbolically progressive, operationally conservative.
Take the 100% renewable energy standard. As @leahstokes has written, these policies often fail in practice. I note our leadership on renewable energy in the piece, but the kind of politics we see on housing and transportation are going foil that if they don't change.
Creating a statewide consumer financial protection agency is great! But again, you're not asking most voters to give anything up or accept any actual changes.
I don't see that as balancing the scales on, say, high-speed rail.
CA is willing to vote for higher taxes, new agencies, etc. It was impressive when LA passed Measure H, a new sales tax to fund homeless shelters. And depressing to watch those same communities pour into the streets to protest shelters being placed near them. That's the rub.
It's very in vogue to bash California and this doesn't even reach to some things that deserve scorn, like the continuing control of the Western States Petroleum Association and the state Chamber of Commerce in policymaking. And yet-https://t.co/vHZ6GM7QF8
— David Dayen (@ddayen) February 11, 2021
I think California is world leading on progressivism that doesn't ask anyone to give anything up, or accept any major change, right now.
That's what I mean by symbolically progressive, operationally conservative.
Take the 100% renewable energy standard. As @leahstokes has written, these policies often fail in practice. I note our leadership on renewable energy in the piece, but the kind of politics we see on housing and transportation are going foil that if they don't change.
Creating a statewide consumer financial protection agency is great! But again, you're not asking most voters to give anything up or accept any actual changes.
I don't see that as balancing the scales on, say, high-speed rail.
CA is willing to vote for higher taxes, new agencies, etc. It was impressive when LA passed Measure H, a new sales tax to fund homeless shelters. And depressing to watch those same communities pour into the streets to protest shelters being placed near them. That's the rub.
