The Real Bottleneck for Product Managers Isn’t Communication. It’s Exhaustion.
We’ve been sold the lie that if we just communicate better, the project will magically come together. But the true job of a product manager isn’t flawlessly executing requirements—it’s surviving the physical and emotional grind of ambiguous needs, legacy tech debt, and endless meetings. The most strategic move you can make isn’t a better framework; it’s treating your own fatigue as a first-class constraint.