Product manager just structure how much do you know

As the saying goes, words can not be nonsense, medicine can not be disorderly to eat.

The words you casually say may be forgotten after you say it, but the person who listens to it may remember it and ask you to cash it.

For parents, when the child can communicate with you in the language, do remember, do not easily commit to the child, if you promise to do, parents will do, otherwise, the children will gradually reduce your trust.

For leaders, when you need to motivate your employees to accomplish a certain goal, remember that you must fulfill your commitments after the goal is completed, and that you must reward, which is one of the criteria for judging the leader's eligibility, or you should not expect your subordinates to work for you.

For those of us who are more involved in implementation, when you in order to deal with a sudden event and put forward a plan, remember that the program can not only stay in the mouth or on paper, we must strive to complete, or the rice bowls do not protect small, falling an RP problem, in their own circle can not be a bad look.

I now belong to this situation, yesterday in order to cope with the problem of Zhou, casually developed a "product manager core ability to upgrade the term", although I believe that Zhou may not remember the full name of the plan, but I know, he must have remembered that I proposed this plan, This program is designed to enable new product managers to quickly improve their skills, of course, according to my department, "who proposed who the implementation of the rules, the implementation of this program has fallen to my head in no suspense."

Woe is bliss.

Zhou did not urge me to finish as soon as before, but it is so strange that when others urge you to do things, you usually do it leisurely, but when others do not rush you, you will be driven to do.

The first thing to come to the company today is to figure out how to draw up the plan.

Later I think carefully, this plan is mainly for Zhou to see, if you write a large pile of consciousness of things, he will certainly faint, simply go straight to the topic, directly explain the product manager should have the knowledge and skills, that is to explain the product manager should be the necessary knowledge structure.

Put aside distractions, organize thoughts, summed up, a self thought the most comprehensive product manager knowledge structure in the paper, the following for me to write the Product manager knowledge structure directory.

The chart is completed with MindManager 7.

After reading this structure, Zhou stared at me for half a day, then said to me with a little suspicion:

"Bubble, are you sure that the product manager really needs to have so much knowledge and skills?" Although you told me what the product manager should do, but I really did not think that there are so many refinements. ”

"Sorry, write a little excited, confiscated, I was a little surprised myself." "I'm really a little surprised that a lot of things do not sum up and don't know, a summary to find that the reality is more than the number of times, such as the chart."

"Do you know what I'm thinking now?" Zhou asked me with this piece of paper.

"What do you think?"

"I wonder how many product managers in the country now meet this requirement?"

"To be honest, hardly. From my personal expectations, I hope that our product managers not only have a complete knowledge system, but also have excellent application ability, of course, this is the product manager should have the professional quality, but the domestic this piece just started, but also need time to develop. ”

"If this is the situation in China, will the situation abroad be much better?" You know? "

"Take the United States, product management originated in the United States, the United States, product management professionalism and standardization are doing a good job." The experience of business practice is also very rich. But it does not mean that in such a context, the United States product management development is very perfect, there are many U.S. enterprises in the implementation of product management and domestic almost, take the time I show you a U.S. product manager of the authority of the investigation you know, the old beauty is also entangled. ”

"Then why do we always feel that American product management is more advanced than China?" Zhou does not believe that the US, which has developed 80 years of product management, will be so miserable.

I thought about it and said seriously:

"There are three reasons:

First, product management originated in the United States, the United States to implement product management and product managers professional development relatively normative and sound.

Second, the Chinese management industry blindly enlarge the Procter and Gamble, IBM, Microsoft, General Motors and other well-known enterprises, but the United States also have a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises, their implementation of product management system also has a lot of problems, a small number of large enterprises can not represent the entire U.S. enterprise status quo, as Beijing and Shanghai can not represent the whole of China.

The last reason is that Chinese companies are somewhat less confident, especially in High-tech industries, almost one-sided superstition of foreign things, enterprises themselves lack of truth-seeking, local attitude.

Zhou did not speak, and seemed to contemplate nothing.

I continue to say: "In the management field, Chinese enterprises should learn from foreign advanced experience, but can not be copied and imitated, abandoned the fundamental significance of management." ”

"The fundamental meaning?"

I adjusted my voice, "to be aware, the fundamental significance of management is not in how much is learned, but in how much is practiced."

Zhou looked at me, still in meditation.

I do not know what he is thinking, simply let go: "In my opinion, the theory of fine carving, but also less than a rough practice." As Chinese companies and practitioners in China, we can learn foreign advanced ideas, to understand the development trend abroad, but must not blindly follow, the final vision or to fall in their own country, their own enterprises, and seek truth from facts, which I have always insisted that product managers need the most necessary attitude. Chinese people are sometimes too insecure, and this kind of distrust directly leads to the creation of a large number of insecure Chinese enterprises, saying that it is necessary to talk about foreign countries as a normal. ”

I will continue to say, Zhou interrupted me, "a bubble, I understand you mean, today is here, I have some things to go out, you this knowledge structure is very good, according to this preparation." ”

After that, he got up and left the office.

Zhou left very suddenly, to tell the truth, my brain is more chaotic, I do not know just that the words are not to him to take a bad impression, I know, he is a do not like to listen to the virtual, like the hard work of the people, and just the words in my opinion is too stream of consciousness.

Evening back home, I just hang up QQ, see Zhou head in flashing, state is off-line.

I open the Chat window, above is his message to me:

A bubble, the morning communication gave me a great touch, at the time of setting up the product department, the company does not want to spend too much effort on construction, according to what the company means by referring to the architecture of XX Company (a well-known American company in the industry), but your words make me feel that the risk is too high for the company to do so. Because we do not know whether this structure is really suitable for our company, especially when there is a problem in this structure, we can not even know how to solve it, because this structure is not what we are built on the basis of our own reality, we can always see the surface and do not see the essence, Any decision or action that sees only appearances will ultimately pay high tuition fees.

Therefore, I decided to put forward to the company must be in the establishment of a suitable product management system to do more work, I would like to explain to them that the establishment of product management system is not set up a product department, recruit a few product managers on the OK, need to do too much work, not afraid of your jokes, the morning and you communicate before, I have been holding this idea in the planning of the development of the product department, hehe.

We're going to be busy for a while. You not only with me to build the product department, the establishment of the company's product management system, but also responsible for specific products, what resources need and I said, I can not help you in the specific work, but to fight for the resources we need I will be duty-bound.

I hope we can do it together!

I do not know why, after reading his message, my heart suddenly filled with a move, this moved both my admiration for him, but also I realized his confidence in my heart.

Now many companies are talking about building a harmonious working relationship, what is a harmonious working relationship? I think very simple, is 16 words: pragmatic, seek common ground, mutual trust and respect, through thick and thin.

I feel like I'm feeling this kind of relationship right now.

It is no exaggeration to say that I now have a "hero encounter" feeling.

In the next QQ, I also sent him a look:

Apao Dour:

Nothing to say, a bubble in the summary of this picture, tears rushing, their knowledge of the structure of the request is really bad too far.

Some content bubbles know what to do and know how to do it.

Other content bubbles know what to do, but don't know how to do it.

In short, the revolution has not been successful, brothers continue to work hard!