pm-career-growth
Help users navigate the path from junior product manager to executive leadership by focusing on ownership, cross-functional influence, and intentional career design.
npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill pm-career-growth --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# PM Career Growth Transition from task-executor to high-impact product leader by mastering influence, ownership, and strategic foresight. Help the user with pm career growth using insights from 43 guests and posts across Lenny's Podcast and Newsletter. ## How to Help 1. **Define the roadmap** - Help the user treat their career as a product by defining success metrics and a multi-year growth strategy. 2. **Identify ownership gaps** - Guide the user to find high-impact, neglected problems in their organization that they can take responsibility for. 3. **Audit influence skills** - Evaluate the user's current relationship-building and communication styles to identify blockers to senior-level trust. 4. **Prepare for transitions** - Provide tactical advice for navigating promotions, new domain pivots, or moving into executive leadership. ## Core Principles ### Accept Total Responsibility Ben Horowitz: "What I was trying to get out in Good Product Manager, Bad Product Manager, was the job is fundamentally a leadership job. And it's a tricky leadership job because nobody is actually reporting to you." Product leadership is defined by driving results without formal authority. You must acce
- How to Help
- Core Principles
- Accept Total Responsibility
- Prioritize Creative Velocity
- Shift to Proactive Leadership
- Write Your Career Spec
- Control the Customer Truth
- Questions to Help Users
- Common Mistakes to Flag
- Deep Dive
- Related Skills
What does the pm-career-growth skill do?
Help users navigate the path from junior product manager to executive leadership by focusing on ownership, cross-functional influence, and intentional career design.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill pm-career-growth --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From RefoundAI/lenny-skills, a repository with 1,215 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.