The one question that saves product careers | Matt LeMay

<p><strong>Matt LeMay</strong> spent 13 years as a music critic at Pitchfork before becoming one of product management’s most influential voices. He’s consulted with companies from startups to Fortune 500s and authored two essential PM books, including <em>Impact-First Product Teams</em>. After watching countless product teams get laid off despite “doing everything right,” he discovered a harsh truth: most PMs are optimizing for the wrong things.</p><p><strong>In this conversation, you’ll learn:</strong></p><p>1. The one question that predicts if your team will survive the next layoffs (and why most teams can’t answer it)</p><p>2. Why following product “best practices” perfectly can actually accelerate your path to unemployment</p><p>3. The “low-impact PM death spiral”—how teams accidentally make themselves irrelevant</p><p>4. How to push back on executives without saying “no” (the options, plus a recommendation framework)</p><p>5. The counterintuitive reason why the happiest PMs are a...