Product managers who lack organization skills are happy to hear questions like “What should we be working on right now?” because these questions put the product manager in the utterly indispensable role of guiding the team’s day-to-day priorities and decisions. By contrast, product managers who excel at organization see the question “What should we be working on right now?” as a sign that something is broken. They strive to ensure that everybody on their team will always know what they should be working on and why, without having to ask them personally. When something goes wrong,
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