“Good product managers[*] don’t just use the information they surface to make better plans, they use the act of gathering information and responding to it to build trust relationships, in a virtuous cycle that leads both to more openness and better whole-team alignment. They’re really good at promoting psychological safety, or “the belief that you won’t be punished or humiliated for speaking up with ideas, questions, concerns, or mistakes,”
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https://medium.com/@ElizAyer/nobody-could-have-known-inclusive-behaviors-to-counter-a-culture-of-short-termism-cf662e1bab26

“Nobody could have known”: inclusive behaviors to counter short-termism

Yes, I do realize that we live in a world of probabilistic events. Lots of things happen that nobody could know in advance. A particular power outage from a hurricane making landfall in an unexpected…

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* I’d generalize those points to other leaders in tech

@RuthMalan let’s push the generalization even further!

“Good people don’t just act to achieve personal goals. Good people act to build trust relationships, in a virtuous cycle that promotes community-wide trust and achieves societal goals.”

@jared sounds so good, in these times!