As someone who went from a technical role (director/architect) into PM, I selected out pretty fast. When I looked at the differences across organizations where I had worked with other Product Managers, between the ones who selected out, survived, succeeded, and the ones who were great, there were themes. The great ones (I met two), were charismatic, flexible, technical enough to make engineers feel appreciated, and w…
"...the polymath everyone thought someone else understood, "the only person who understands how it works," the patsy, the brown shoes and patagonia vest guy..." Wow - know em all. Genius!