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The leadership round, for PMs
The fourth PM rubric is scored on influence without authority, and the stories that evidence it are specific. This lesson covers the four questions that carry the round — disagreeing with engineering, saying no upward, a launch that failed, and a decision made without data — and what makes a PM story read as leadership rather than as coordination.
What you'll be able to do
- Tell a PM story that evidences influence rather than coordination
- Answer the engineering-disagreement question without becoming either a pushover or a bulldozer
- Own a failed launch in a way that demonstrates judgment rather than blame
- Show a decision made under genuine ambiguity, including what you got wrong
Before this: what-the-loop-measures
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The fourth PM rubric is scored on influence without authority, and the stories that evidence it are specific. This lesson covers the four questions that carry the round — disagreeing with engineering, saying no upward, a launch that failed, and a decision made without data — and what makes a PM story read as leadership rather than as coordination. This walkthrough runs about 23 minutes, with runnable code you can edit and re-run as you read.
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