I have always loved storytelling. I read a lot as a kid, immersing myself in fictional worlds set in different time periods and far away places. And I also wrote my own tales. I liked to create settings and outcomes for the characters that lived vividly in my imagination. Reading and writing was a great escape for me as an only child. But it also laid the foundation for my future career in marketing.
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"What do we get paid for?" I was asked to speak to a group of product leaders recently at a major private equity firm. And this is how I opened up the presentation — with a big-picture question about what it is product managers do. If you look back at what I have written on the Aha! blog and in my book, Lovability, the answer seems easy.
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