Winters: Independent Strategic Thinking Is the Great Filter for PM Careers
Casey Winters · How to sell your ideas and rise within your company | Casey Winters, Eventbrite · Jul 21, 2022 · at 46:08
Casey Winters, Chief Product Officer at Eventbrite, discusses the primary skillset ceiling preventing senior PMs from advancing into leadership.
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“That means when you try to become a product leader at the company and, you know, the CEO expects that from you and you can't do it. You're gonna like set yourself up to like really cap hard on, on how fast your career can grow and you'll get stuck, you know, whether it's at the senior product manager level or at the group PM level, because you can't show that you can drive decision-making on your own and that you can push forward new ideas that are gonna help the company. So that's definitely where I've seen. The biggest bottleneck in terms of skillsets. Obviously there's lots of important skillsets you want to build as a PM, but that one to get to the top is the great filter.”
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