“Thought Leadership” and Product Management

In today’s current techscape, thought leadership has been as much of a punchline as it has been innovative. On one hand, good thought leadership has driven teams to better outcomes, aligns organizations around a common goal, expedited roadmaps and uses product-thinking to their advantage. On the other had, bad thought leaders slow teams, have mostly vague outputs and base decisions purely on ego which ends up becoming more of a blocker than a driver for change. There is an expectation that every tech company has good thought leadership, but like drivers on the road, there are good…