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Ken Sandy: Influence Was Always the Point
Most conversations about artificial intelligence and the product manager begin by asking whether the role survives. This one begins somewhere more useful: by asking what the role was ever actually for. I speak with Ken Sandy—author of The Influential Product Manager, the lecturer who built the first product management course in the engineering school at UC Berkeley, a longtime executive coach to founders and executives, and an adviser to boards—about what is left of product leadership once the artefacts that used to define it can be produced in seconds.
Ken's argument is not the reassuring…
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