good decisions equate to good products

Tough couple of weeks in product management land. Reminds me that the decisions you make about your product and the insight you offer are ultimately your currency. If you can make good decisions you can probably make good products.

Here's a bunch of things that keep you clear headed and help give that decision it's best chance:

• Listen to others views but make sure the decision, or opinion, is your own.
• Don't shy away from making what maybe an unpopular call. Better being unpopular than having regrets.
• Consider all your feedback and analytics but be aware you need more than numbers to run people focused products and services.
• Get decisions out to the people they impact, fast. Procrastination eats away at your energy and drive.
• Once you've made a decision, stick by it and move on.
• Above all, now matter how much you love what you do, it is only what you do, it's not who you are. So, do what you need to do.

Anyone else have some good advice for making those tough decisions? I'd love to know.

Comments

[FS]

I've been realizing the importance of good decisions myself and have started on a journey to learn more on the subject, with help from Stanford University's Strategic Decisions & Risk Management Programme - http://strategicdecisions.stanford.edu/

I've started documenting my learnings at http://decisionomics.blogspot.com

[Carl Knibbs]

Thanks for the comments. I'll take a look at your blog.

Best,

Carl