Many product leaders hit a plateau because they keep reading the same product books. The real growth comes from expanding into adjacent fields like psychology, design, marketing, and leadership. If you want sharper judgment and stronger product instincts, broaden your range beyond product-only content.

Jeff Bezos once said in an interview with Forbes "Friends congratulate me after a quarterly-earnings announcement and say, 'Good job, great quarter.' And I'll say, 'Thank you, but that quarter was baked three years ago.'" As the saying goes, "It takes 10 years to be an overnight success"

An unconventional view of what it takes to be a Product Leader. Shifting to a Product Leader can often be a drastically different role. Here are 5 under represented ways that product leadership is different from being an individual contributor.