46: How to qualify yourself for a product management job

I’m writing about 100 things I’ve learned about product management.

If you want to work as a developer, you learn software engineering, computer science or teach yourself to code. If you want to become a UX designer, you learn about design and behavioural psychology. But what do you need to learn if you want to qualify for a job as a product manager?

There’s no undergraduate or post-graduate degree (yet) that fully prepares you to become a product manager. An MBA can get you pretty close, but i...