Product Managers: You Are What You Build

If you are like me, the following has happened to you. And if you are lucky, it has only happened once — but that is unlikely.

You are starting a new project, and you want to bring your very best, but you slip up at some point. Maybe you cannot get back on track. You are disappointed. The end result did not meet the greatness of your early ambitions.

As a defense mechanism, you might throw up your arms and say, “Who cares? I was not trying my hardest anyway.” But I bet you still wake up in...