Book Titles

Empowered
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products

By Chris Jones, Marty Cagan

Year Published: 2020
ISBN-13: 978-1119691297
Categories: Empowerment, Products, Teams

51 Quotes Found

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Empowered:

Your highest order contribution and responsibility as product manager is to make sure that what the engineers are asked to build will be worth building.

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Empowered:

Taking control of your time may be harder than ever, but it is also more important than ever.

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Empowered:

…to get the critically important work of a product manager done, you need on the order of four solid hours a day.

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Empowered:

…acquiring knowledge and applying knowledge are two different things.

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Empowered:

…trust is most easily built if you do it before you need it. This requires deliberate effort.

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Empowered:

Everyone’s job becomes more enjoyable when they’re working with people they care about.

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Empowered:

…an empowered product team is all about pushing decisions down to the product team level.

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Empowered:

…if you truly care about the happiness of your people, you know your actions speak louder than your words.

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Empowered:

The chances of solving hard problems goes up substantially if you can approach the problem from several perspectives.

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Empowered:

…in many cases, too much domain knowledge is more of a liability (they make the mistake of thinking they are the customer).

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