Separating the Best from the Rest: How Product Managers Handle “Downtime”

How the Best Product Managers Handle “Downtime”

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8 min readAug 19, 2019

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Over the past 7 years in Product, I’ve worked with a lot of Product Managers. Some were great at being unreasonable, many were extreme…

Alex Mitchell

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Product @Kinsured | 5x Product Leader/Founder | Syndicate: bit.ly/mitchell-ventures | Author: @producthandbook @disruptbook

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