Managing Noise: The Higher You Climb the Product Manager Ladder
The higher you climb the product manager ladder, the more noise gathers around you.
You hear multiple ideas and suggestions for improvements from various people. And that doesn't make much sense in the current picture. It would be nice to do in an ideal world, but we are too far from that.
There is a tendency for companies to lay off people but don't cut down their expectations, trying to operate as if nothing had happened and the business goes as usual.
They likely hope for AI to resolve that inconsistency between dreams and reality. But that is a gamble at the moment. It might pay off for some, but hurt others.