From Decision Maker to Decision Supporter
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My dad gave my new son a book of fun pen/marker doodles. I’m using them in posts.As a product manager, it is your responsibility to make sure that the best possible decisions get made…not to necessarily make those decisions.Sometimes you’ll have the best idea, especially when it comes to areas requiring deep domain knowledge. Most of the time, you won’t, nor will you necessarily be the best arbiter/judge of ideas. To elicit better ideas — to make better decisions — the talented people on the team (you included) will need context, data, space, opportunities to iterate on and improve ideas, tactics for reducing cognitive bias, and access to facilitation/decision-making frameworks. You may even be called on to break a tie occasionally, though it is better to establish an open-to-all framework that (...)