Should Product Management let Sales drive product requirements?

There has been a good discussion over the past couple of weeks at the How To Be A Good Product Manager and Ask A Good Product Manager blogs run by Jeff Lash on the topic of how Product Management can work effectively with Sales.

One of the questions that was discussed caught our attention:
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Product Management, Passion & Design

Last week, Paul Young at the Product Beautiful blog made an excellent post titled “Is Product Management Incompatible with Passion?“. His post is based on a recent Fortune magazine article titled “The Trouble with Steve Jobs“, and Paul asks the question:

“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.”

This is a very thought-provoking topic, and had several insightful comments – make sure to check out Paul’s post. Here are our thoughts on it.
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