Optimise for what?
Product management, at its heart, is a profession about choices. Making good decisions when only bad ones are available is one of the essential, yet challenging, elements of the job. Those who excel have a high degree of decision intelligence and a knack for asking themselves, not what is right with their choices, but what could be wrong with them. While a great deal are concerned about the decisions of their team, and subsequently their product, these mental arenas encourage contemplation of a more personal matter, how one…
