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Product By Committee

June 30th, 2010 | Leadership, Product Management

I skimmed this article (Thanks Rose for sharing!) and happened across this quote from Michael Arrington, founder and co-editor of TechCrunch.

Product should be a dictatorship, not consensus-driven.

Reminds me of this quote:

“Consensus is the absence of leadership.” Margaret Thatcher

Product teams are looking for leaders and for product management to lead them.


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    • Anonymous

      I needed that. I was feeling bad b/c I was choosing to not design by consensus. Listen to the various viewpoints, yes. Debate the details, not so much. Let’s pick a direction and go. We can adjust along the way as we learn more.

    • http://twitter.com/lmckeogh Larry McKeogh

      I needed that. I was feeling bad b/c I was choosing to not design by consensus. Listen to the various viewpoints, yes. Debate the details, not so much. Let's pick a direction and go. We can adjust along the way as we learn more.