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Deepak's great article reminds me that a product team leader needs to embrace uncertainty.

Early stage and small companies understand well the importance of thinking big, moving fast, ruthlessly adapting to a rapidly changing environment.

Mature industry product teams have a different set of challenges, sluggish realization among all teams of the need to be outcome oriented, cloudy vision of product sense, the golden handcuffs of inertia in the way of execution, aversion to risk of alignment between a 'luddite' team and a 'racey' team.

I'm not even going to go into all the things on strategy that can go wrong, but many wasted dollars come from sand in the gearbox from an undefined definition of what is a win.

Many upside opportunities with all types of organizations when they practice the seven disciplines.

If you want to go deeper with Deepak and me, check out our upcoming conversation October 18 in the Product Mgt, AI and Data Science series about this article. https://lu.ma/c3gfcwj2

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Thanks for the comment and looking forward.

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