Good Product Managers, Great Product Managers

In this Twitter thread, Shreyas Doshi contrasts good product managers with great ones across about thirty dimensions, from research and strategy to stakeholder management and career growth. Each pairing shows how a competent habit can be pushed further toward judgment, leverage and care for the whole team and company. He closes by framing the list as a set of guideposts rather than rigid rules.

• Great product managers blend numbers with qualitative insight instead of letting metrics alone drive decisions.
• They treat the whole customer experience, including docs, support emails and the website, as part of the product.
• They make it easy for colleagues to challenge their ideas and actively look for where they might be wrong.
• They focus on high-leverage work, delegate often, and check that the strategy is sound before optimizing execution.
• They see legal, security and similar groups as advisors and still own the final decision for users and the business.
• Their highest form of success is helping the people around them find flow and fulfillment.

Doshi builds every entry on the same parallel frame, a sentence about good PMs followed by a sharper sentence about great ones. Retyping it trains compressed contrast, repetition used for rhythm, and short sentences that pivot on a single changed word.

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