How I see a product management role

A product management role, wether it is a Product Owner, Manager, or a Program Manager, seems to always be a human centric role at a company. That should sound a little surprising, since a PM does not directly manage people but a product, by working with multiple teams, users, and stakeholders. But building successful products is not all about the having great vision and seeing further than everyone else. I think it’s a lot more about allowing smart collaborators to work together in a common direction, and making it as pleasant and easy for them to do so. That can mean a lot of different things, wether it is defining that direction altogether, finding resources to lift roadblocks along the way, or finding ways to align conflicting opinions about technical or business decisions. All these aspects are well covered in the book “Product Management in Practice”, but one question that I’d like to ask the author would be how to deal with the insecurities he covered in the first chapter, in order not to fall into traps such as trying to overachieve ?