17d • The Room (general chat)
Inner critics
Something I keep seeing with PMs right now...both the ones on my team and the ones I coach is that the inner critic is LOUD! And I'm starting to think it is sometimes responsible for why we are so bad at saying no.
We all know how to say no. We've read the frameworks, we've done the prioritization exercises, we know what a good roadmap looks like.
But the critic is running in the background telling you that saying no means you're not a team player, not strategic enough, not on top of it enough. So you say yes. And then yes again. And suddenly your roadmap looks like everyone else's priority list and nothing on it is actually yours.
Let's discuss the role of that inner voice on our call next week when we talk about Prioritization. Because the pressure on priorities is both external and internal.
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