Paying attention to succession planning and how leaders get selected in your industry/space can give you a good indication of problem areas and priorities to pay attention to. Maybe you're looking for top roles yourself, or maybe you want to be well positioned to support your next potential leadership. This Forbes piece on the problems of finding CEOs in Retail has some good hints:
“Retail used to be all about the product. Today, it’s more about being tethered to the customer, being able to see around corners and where the future lies. That may not be a merchant.”
“CEOs need to understand the multi-channel environment and how customers’ needs can be served across them in a dynamic way,”
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You're excited about the new feature you're about to release. But how confident are you about how you're going to surface the value and story of that feature for your customers across all the channels that you have available to you? And how quickly and deeply will you be able to learn about your customers' perception and response to the feature?
If you're just a #ProductManager you'll say that's someone else's job. If you're a leader, you'll know it's yours.
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