Six seconds is a really long time. Almost nobody can endure six full seconds of silence. So they'll probably tell you something.
Silence after feedback is golden
Leadership → Stakeholder Management
The ability to pause before reacting is the key to mindful communication and being a successful product manager.
Those can't be effective for us as product leaders if we're not listening, so I think listening and being able to converse in the language of the listener is the utmost importance.
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