Articles
Empathy is (an important) part of your job as a Product Leader
A few weeks ago, I ran a poll on LinkedIn and Twitter asking a simple question:
Which human skill do you think is most essential to building great products?
Self awareness
Empathy
Influence
Managing conflict
As you’re reading an article on empathy, you probably have a pretty good idea of what came out on top.
Breaking the cycle of self-doubt: 5 ways to stop feeling like an imposter (Part 2)
Last week I shared a high-level look at impostor phenomenon (the more accurate description of what is widely known as impostor syndrome) and how working remotely intensifies these feelings. This week, we’ll talk about:
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What impostor phenomenon really is (according to one of the women who coined the term).
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Where the feelings and limiting beliefs related to impostorism may come from.
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5 ways you can better understand and live with impostor phenomenon
This article isn’t very good. How Product Leaders can better understand and live with Imposter Syndrome (Part 1)
In 1978, graduate students Suzanne Imes and Pauline Rose Clance had feelings of just not being good enough and of being frauds despite their high level of achievements. They noticed many of their fellow female students had similar feelings.
After an extensive research project to understand why such intelligent, high-achieving women were feeling this way, they published a paper in which they coined the term “imposter phenomenon.”
