What mindset or practice accelerates growth as a product leader?

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Jonathan Evens

Product Lead · Google Deepmind

User Empathy

Jonathan Evens says user empathy—focusing on deep user problems and starting with the problem—is essential for the AI product PM, which he says he was already doing.

Manoj Leelanivas

President, HP Solutions · HP

Curiosity

Manoj Leelanivas says curiosity is the mindset, explaining that curiosity beats certainty and that you need to be curious because things change.

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Tara Seshan

Member of Product Staff · Openai

Being Empirical

Tara Seshan says being empirical matters more than being academic or theoretical, because in a fast-changing market you have to get to something you can test with users quickly and try stuff and learn as much as possible.

Gyve Safavi

Co-Founder & CEO · SURI

Customer Feedback First

Gyve Safavi says he rates advice and does not over-index on what others tell him beyond customers, because their business is customer-related.

Phong Nguyen

Member Board of Directors · Majesco

Embrace Change

Phong Nguyen says embracing change is important because early in your career, pivots and changes should be part of your career cycle, and talking to people can trigger new interests and rewarding pivots.

Srinivasan Raghavan

Chief Product Officer · Freshworks

Time With End Users

Srinivasan Raghavan points to spending time with end users, saying product builders need to understand their business and talk to them about how they use the product, which builds better judgment and taste.