The above blog article is thought provoking especially the following words:

Is Product Management incompatible with creating products that inspire passion?

Product Management’s function is to discover market needs and fulfill those needs with products. But people don’t buy on need alone; they also buy on emotion and other soft factors.

Says Palo Alto venture capitalist Jean-Louis Gasse, a former Apple executive who once worked with Jobs: “Democracies don’t make great products. You need a competent tyrant.”

Tyrants don’t work with Product Management. Product Managers who try to be tyrants fail. The PM process of “listen to market, feed requirements to development, output product” is designed to be safe and create exactly what the market needs. But no one needs the products above; they are all emotional buys. How do you quantify emotion?