Why so condescending?

I loved the content and it made a lot of sense. Why were the male characters portrayed as stupid with the condescending voice-over? Likewise, the female characters were unfairly portrayed as weak. Not sure if that was the books intent but the reading was bad in my opinion.

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Distractingly soft narration

The narrator's voice is suited to bedtime stories for children, not business advice. I had a hard time focusing on the content of the book her voice was so soft and saccharine. I just couldn't take the book seriously.

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Please have a different voice over

The content itself is great but the voice is really really bad. I had a hard to finish, this is not a bedtime story. I ended up buying the book itself to read.

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Terrible narration

Great content. The worst and most annoying narrator for a non fiction book. You don’t need to change your voice for every piece of dialogue.

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Odd narration practice

I am enjoying the content of this book and it seems to be valuable and on point. However the narrator’s practice of altering her voice to sound deeper and gruffer when quoting men is really distracting. Imagine if a male narrator put on a higher pitched voice to indicate he was quoting a woman…he’d be labelled sexist! It detracts from the quotes themselves.

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Good insights, inappropriate delivery

The story is well crafted but I was much distracted by over acting of the reader making it not sound like a business book but fiction.

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A comprehensive tour to being a tech product manager

Tech products are complex beasts invented by humans. They require an operating system that can react quickly and nimbly and yet remain focused on a strategic vision.
As such, a product manager (or product owner in an agile development setting) is one of the hardest and most important roles to succeed as a product led organization.
This book provides a comprehensive guided tour for the PM role, from understanding what is a product led organization, how to enable product teams turn a product vision and strategy into viable options, through how to shape a product led organization in a structure set up for success. By structure I mean not only org structure but also roles, artifacts, flow and emergence of knowledge and more.
The book, imho, falls short on two aspects:
- the linkage between organizational agility and a product led organization. There are some examples of how poor agile practices hinder a mindset of a product led organization. But not how real agility is key to turning concept to cash quickly and effectively.
- the description of required meetings and procedures in the third part feels over prescriptive. Maybe Perri meant them as an example. I understood them as how it should work.
To me it feels that the excellent explanations and examples for utilizing experimentation in the product management concepts are missing on these aspects of a product led organization.
That being said, the book gets an easy 5 star rating from me as one of the best books on PM I have read/listened to.

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Hope for those of us still stuck in the trap

This is a must-read for anyone currently undergoing organizational transformation to the product model including; product managers, designers, engineers, and senior leadership. This perfectly illustrates the big picture vision while outlining steps needed to achieve the shift in product mindset within your organization. I’m recommending for my whole team.

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Excellent, example led, product text

Extraordinary read, every product manager and product leader needs to read this book to help them frame what it means to be a healthy operating product org.

If you’re a PM this is required reading

Simple, practical, and essential, Melissa lays out the dangers of output oriented thinking and how to avoid it. You need to read this book.