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Most Important Skills for Product Managers and How To Grow Them

Focus o these core skills to 10x your product management career

Bart Krawczyk
Bootcamp
4 min readMay 10, 2023

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Product management is a broad discipline and entails multiple various skills. It takes years to hone all of them.

However, not all product managers are created equal.

Some will lead more into the technical side, some will enjoy working on 0–1 type of products, while others will find joy in corporate politics and stakeholder management.

However, there are five fundamental skills that every product manager, regardless of specialization, should master.

A lack of these skills might seriously slow one’s career growth.

System thinking

System thinking is all about understanding how different parts of the product and company work together.

It’s the ability to truly see the big picture.

Connecting the dots will help you to spot the most impactful areas to focus on, make the collaboration easier, and lead to more creative and efficient solutions.

How to improve system thinking

  • Talk to people in other teams. Understand how their work, what they are focusing on, and why. Ask them…

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Bart Krawczyk
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