In One Word, What Makes a Good Product Manager?

A

Accommodating

Accountable

Adaptable

Analytical

Awareness

B

Babysitter

Balanced

Believer

C

Calm

Cognizant

Collaborative

Communicator

Competitive

Compromise

Concise

Courage

Credibility

Cunning

Customer-oriented

Curiosity

D

Decision-maker

Determined

Diplomat

Disciplined

Diverse

Dogged

Driven

E

Empathetic

Energetic

Entrepreneur

Evangelist

Exhausted

F

Fact-based

Far-sighted

Flexible

G

Gumption

Guts

H

Hands-on

Humor

I

Influential

Informed

Innovative

Inquisitive

Insightful

Integrity

Irony

K

Know-how

Knowledgeable

L

Leader

Lighthouse

Listener

Logical

Lucky

M

Market-facing

Mindful

Multi-disciplined

Multi-tasker

N

Negotiator

O

Obsessive

Omniscient

Open-minded

Optimist

Organized

Orchestrator

Overworked

P

Passionate

Patient

Patterns

Perceptive

Perseverance

Persistent

Perspicacity

Persuasive

Placater

Positive

Pragmatic

Priorities

Problem-solver

Profitable

Q

Questions

R

Realistic

Relatable

Relationships

Resilient

Resourceful

Respected

Responsive

Results

Revolutionary

S

Scrappy

Seer

Smart

Strategic

T

Tenacious

Thorough

U

Unappreciated

Understanding

Under-paid

Under-valued

V

Versatile

Vision

W

Wise

Wonderous

Workaholic

X

Xtraordinary

Y

Yeoman

Z

Zealous

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