🙅♂️5 Steps To Say No Gracefully To Product Ideas
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6 min readFeb 2, 2020
The hardest part of being a product manager is probably managing other people’s ideas.
We’ve all been there — that meeting when your CEO / GM is pitching an idea and drops the Ford-Bomb: “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” Then the discussion is over, and two weeks later you come out of the build with a product no one asked for.
Adding even more insults to injury is that according to the Harvard Business Review, there was no evidence that Henry Ford ever declared the quote.
