
16 Training on Trial
partnerand have gathered evidence to demonstrate your value
to thebusiness,thenyou might evenwelcome thechallengeto
prove your worth. Now begins theprocess of doing so.
Wendy’s Story
It was the late 1990s and I was a product manager for a consumer
goods company in the Midwest. It was a high-pressure job, where
new products needed to be developed and brought to market
quickly. Being the product manager, I was also the project manager
and at the helm of what I could best describe as organized chaos.
We had a new product for the largest home improvement cen-
ter chain, and the timeline was no different from that for any other
product: ...