It's not unusual for a new product manager to wonder how she can demonstrate this understanding of the company's best interests when she's the product manager of just a single team. But there are many opportunities: helping out another product team on one of their critical objectives, going above and beyond for a customer or a stakeholder, or publicly giving credit to others. And most common of all, making or supporting a decision that is not necessarily optimal for her product team, but is clearly better for the customer or the business.

