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By Christopher Michailov-Lee (Bio'98)

(Amazon Publishing; 243 pages; 2026)

This book reads like the field manual product managers have been waiting for—clear, strategic, and unapologetically practical. Framing modern product management through the timeless lens of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, it translates ancient strategic principles into concrete, day-to-day moves for navigating stakeholders, customers, markets, and internal politics with confidence.

Rather than offering another abstract tour of frameworks, the author walks systematically through the real battlefield of a product manager’s world: defining a compelling vision, aligning cross-functional teams, running meaningful discovery, making trade-offs under pressure, launching and iterating at pace, and managing a career that can easily spiral into reactive firefighting. Each chapter is anchored to a carefully curated Sun Tzu quote, then unpacked into modern tools, examples, and rituals that readers can apply immediately—whether they work in startups or global enterprises.

A key strength of the book is its honesty about the role. It doesn’t romanticize product management as endless ideation sessions; it shows the complexity, the competing agendas, and the emotional labor of leading without formal authority. Yet it remains fundamentally optimistic: by understanding the “terrain” (organization, market, and technology), knowing themselves, and mastering a small set of repeatable practices, product managers can regain control of their calendars, their roadmaps, and ultimately their careers.

For those outside the role—executives, engineers, designers, or simply curious readers—the book offers a rare, behind-the-scenes look at what effective product managers actually do all day. It clarifies why the best PMs operate like strategic generals rather than feature clerks, and why their decisions so profoundly influence team performance and product outcomes.

Strategic without being academic, tactical without being trivial, this is the book that both demystifies product management and raises the bar for it. Anyone serious about succeeding in the discipline—or about understanding the people who quietly shape the products they depend on—will find in these pages a comprehensive, battle-tested guide to winning in the product arena.