How to Navigate Through Complexity?!

The Master Product Manager's Way of Working Series

We all live in a world where complexity is something that we always try to avoid too much or try to embrace too much.

Sometimes I find product managers rejecting too many meetings and calls in the name of keeping things simple.

On the other hand, I find too many products manager accepting way too many meetings, discussion calls and customers meeting in the name of embracing complexity.

So which is the right approach?!

Is it avoiding complexity all together or embracing it?!

When I first started working in research and development over a decade ago, I heard a very strange yet impactful quote “It is all about the right priorities and not just any priorities.”

I thought about it for some time when I was handling too much that I can actually handle between operational work, strategy, taking stuff off my manager’s plate. Things are usually chaotic at work, but it is just about setting the right priorities.

We will always have complexities, and we always have the choice to run from them or embrace them, yet neither of these approaches is optimum, WE SHOULD NAVIGATE THEM!

When you are trying to navigate complexity, you realize that in the true sense, black and white no longer exist, it is all grey with different levels and depending on your direction (Which usually would come from business direction or in some cases for some people, their political agenda), you should choose which levels of grey has to be neglected and which has to be focused and dealt with right away. Hence your Right Priorities.

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