// track 07 · 8 lessons · ~39 min
Leadership & Career.
From senior PM to director.
The transitions, skills, and certifications of moving up. The Senior PM → Product Leader "canyon" (Reforge), Tuckman's team-dynamics stages, the limits of MBTI/DISC, hiring + delegation as scale levers, cross-functional leadership without authority, Rumelt's diagnosis-policy-action strategy framework, performance reviews that don't suck, and the four certifications PMs actually pursue (PMP, CSM, PSM, PMI-ACP).
- 15 min07.01
The canyon — Senior PM to Product Leader
What worked at IC level stops working at leader level.
- 5 min07.02
Team dynamics — forming, storming, norming, performing
Tuckman's stages: every team you join goes through them.
- 5 min07.03
Working styles — MBTI, DISC, the limits of both
Useful as conversation-starters, dangerous as labels.
- 5 min07.04
Hiring + delegation
The two skills that decide whether you scale.
- 5 min07.05
Cross-functional leadership
Leading peers you don't manage, in functions you don't own.
- 5 min07.06
Strategy 101 for PMs
Diagnosis + guiding policy + coherent action — Rumelt's three.
- 4 min07.07
Performance reviews — giving + getting
Specific behaviors, real impact, and clear changes for next cycle.
- 5 min07.08
Certification paths — PMP, CSM, PSM, PMI-ACP
When certs help your career and when they don't.
// canonical reading for this track
Beyond what we wrote.
These are the primary sources our lessons draw from. If you want to go deep on this track, start here.
// put it into practice
Reading is half the work.
The simulator drops you into real PM scenarios so the concepts from these lessons stop being abstract.