Tune in to listen to Susan Stavitzski, Senior Product Manager @ CarMax, share the stories behind some of her best product wisdom & career tips for new and aspiring product managers.

Susan's product wisdom & career tips discussed in this episode

1. How to develop customer empathy? Go talk to as many people as possible every single day.
2. 3 buckets of PM specialties; customer-focused, tech-focused, business-focused
3. You can stand out as an aspiring PM by taking on personal projects, put your ideas out there, get feedback from others, don't just sit on it and do nothing
4. Everyone has workarounds when the software does not do what they want it to do, these are opportunities 
5. Make it a priority to hang out with your customer success team, they are the front-line
6. The most powerful teams are the ones that actually do everything together.
7. Take every opportunity, create your own luck

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Tune in to listen to Greg, Product Manager at Veygo UK, share the stories behind some of his best product wisdom & career tips for new and aspiring product managers.

Greg's product wisdom & career tips discussed in this episode

1. Never underestimate the value of networking
2. Take a step back and never forget the goal you are there to deliver ... meaningful solutions to customer problems
3. There are two sides to the product coin, discover problems and deliver against them
4. it's way more difficult to deliver something that actually works for your customers if you're not starting with the problems they're facing
5. Cool tech does not equal customer value
6. When applying for your next product rile, look just beyond the product leader when you're stalking people on LinkedIn and think about, okay, who else am I going to learn from here? Who else is in this company is going to teach me stuff.

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Tune in to listen to Avinoam Zelenko, Senior Product Manager of Feed at LinkedIn, share the stories behind some of his best product wisdom & career tips for new and aspiring product managers.

Avinoam product wisdom & career tips discussed in this episode

1. Try to solve the problem any way you can, don't wait for a perfect solution
2. Worry less about looking the role and trying to check the boxes of like what a PM should be doing
3. During change, you have to bring people along for the journey- applies to the people you are working with and applies to your customers
4. If you're doing anything that involves change, like change management, it is not a sideline thing, it is not the byproduct, it is a thing within itself that deserves principles and attention, and thoughtfulness
5. There are problems everywhere, all around you, try to solve them any way you can, but you can't solve them on your own, so be collaborative, get out of theoretical, get into the driver’s seat

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