Leading by Following - follow up story

Ideas for being a good follower in product management

What happened after writing a recent Product Management IRL article? These insights are for premium subscribers to Product Management IRL.

This week’s backstory is about taking the initiative to help your team:

Leading by Following

What Prompted this Article?

I have a beef with product managers who won’t initiate improvements. It is no excuse that product managers juggle many priorities and don’t have time to help their managers and team.

I wrote this article after hearing the following from people in my organization:

• we’ve never done it that way

• let’s wait to see what the boss wants to do

• even though this doesn’t make sense, we don’t have time to change

I prefer to take action instead of this passive approach!