Modi as a Product Manager..
+ Airpods were $6Bn biz for Apple..and more.
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Understanding Prime Minister Narendra Modi as..PM (Product Manager)
Great product managers are never ignored – they are often at the center of all conversations, driving decisions and taking things forward. On the other hand, average products managers are often seen as ‘mere PRD (requirement document) writers‘ – and are easily ignored by engineering / marketing teams.
It is the same phenomena with Mr. Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister. You can hate him or love him, but you cannot ignore Narendra Modi. After all, no other political figure has been meme-ified so many times, and nobody else has done rock shows like him either
In this piece, we take a look at what product/marketing fellas can learn from PM Modi.
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