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Tiffany Chang's avatar

Recovering people-pleaser who hears you. Thank you for sharing your tips, Kax! Likability does not garner professional respect and trust.

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Kax Uson's avatar

Recovering people-pleasers club!

Yay to us for trying to kill our bad behaviors!

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Amy Mitchell's avatar

Thank you for the tips to get out of "people pleasing" and becoming a product leader. Very helpful for us conflict avoiders!

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Kax Uson's avatar

Super happy it resonated, Amy!

Any tips from your side you can share too?

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Amy Mitchell's avatar

My first approach is building relationships to be able to head off conflict. Then I try to find common ground. I recently wrote about this in Product Management IRL on Substack 😀😀

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Mike Watson's avatar

We all hate feeling like we're failing but after we do and iterate/start our next adventure we pretty quickly realize how beneficial it can be. Great post Kax!

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Kax Uson's avatar

We don't normalize personal failing enough.

The stigma attached to personal failing makes it so easy to be afraid of it.

I had a mentor who once told me "we're not heart surgeons, kax. what's the worst thing that can happen if you fail?" that really turned things around for me. 😅

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