Ultimate Tips for Product Managers on How to Embrace Uncertainty

If you are working or have been working as a product manager for many years, then you would know that there is always a sixth sense in your mind that is forcing you to double-check everything and that if you don’t overlook everything, things were going to be out of your hands in the future.

Yes, we know it all looks dark and gloomy but let us now discuss the deep-rooted psychology behind uncertainty that makes a person so skeptical about everything, and then we can finally move on to the tips that can help you embrace that uncertainty and use it to your advantage.

Both can cloud the thinking process of even the brightest of minds.

They would always want to take the longer one with nothing dangerous over a much shorter route that is not 100% safe and sound. These are some of the traits that have been passed down to us by our most ancient ancestors that we would always want to avoid getting eaten by the lion.

Take one example from the book. Humans would always think that a disease that kills about 1,286 people out of 10K is more dangerous than a disease that is likely to kill 25% of the whole population. Even though the risk of the first disease killing them is less than the alternative.

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For example, when you create a product or a service that is going to be your top seller, as a product manager you need to make sure that you don’t list a million functionalities of your product that it can perform but instead you need to highlight what the product can do for the customer.

Sometimes, this future-gazing pays out a lot as you prep your team into producing a wonderful application or a service that is an instant bestseller. But most of the time this future-gazing doesn’t pan out.

Why? Because if you think that a product manager can predict what’ll happen with the product in more than two or even a single year, then you are sadly mistaken. Things in the ever-changing and cut-throat markets of today never stay the same even for two seconds rather than years.

If you continue to think on these lines, then you are heading for a severe disappointment down the line which will only decrease your morale and stop you from ever achieving perfection.

Learn the two mindsets explained in this blog:

You need to spend more and more time-solving problems for your team in the production process and your customers when they receive the product you are selling. These are the problems that you need to be focussed on rather than dwelling on something that isn’t troubling you and is just in your head.

Another thing that you as a manager have to do is to be brave in the face of adversity. You need to make sure that everything and everyone that comes in your way receives an earful.

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You need to stop pretending that everything is okay and there is nothing to worry about. Instead, you need to make sure that you never again avoid any difficult conversation regarding your work.

If a stakeholder asks for more advanced functionality in the application, tell them why they can or can’t have it. And also, if you can’t comply with a customer’s request due to some structural or economic issues related to the company, you need to have that conversation if you want them to trust you.

Stress is a clingy adversary that will pounce the moment you let your guard down. So, to make your life stress-free, do some exercise or yoga or any form of workout that can help you shed those stress birds off. You can even sleep longer to achieve this.

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