<ul><li>Babysitters keep things tidy and minimize risk, while parents shape growth and potential. The same applies to product managers.</li><li>Product babysitters focus on grooming backlogs and ensuring on-time delivery, but they lack deep customer connections and strategic influence.</li><li>True product managers take ownership of outcomes, connect customer needs with business goals, ask hard questions, and think beyond short-term deliverables.</li><li>To transition from a product babysitter to a product leader, it's important to gain a deep understanding of the product's context, ask why to uncover root problems, prioritize strategic thinking, focus on solving customer pain, and act like a leader even without explicit permission.</li></ul>

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