Frameworks may sound good, but real product management is messy—filled with trade-offs, politics, imperfect data, difficult stakeholders, and decisions made under pressure.
This book doesn’t teach you templates.
It teaches you how to think.
The Leap Forward takes you inside real-world product management—how products are actually built, how careers actually grow, and how good PMs navigate uncertainty when there are no right answers. It’s written for those who want to move beyond theory and learn the judgement, mindset, and decision-making that separate average PMs from effective ones.
If you want to understand product management as it truly exists—not as it’s taught—this book is for you.
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Akhil Jain
Akhil Jain is a product manager and builder who has worked across multiple startups, often in environments defined by ambiguity, pressure, and rapid change. Over the years, he has built products from scratch, taken ideas from zero to real users, and operated in situations where there were no playbooks to follow.
He has handled global stakeholders, worked closely with founders, and navigated the realities of corporate and startup politics. His experience spans managing chaos, aligning conflicting priorities, and making decisions when information was incomplete and timelines were unforgiving.
Akhil has built and run a SaaS startup, conducted real user research over several years, and led teams through both growth and failure. He has seen products succeed, stall, and break—and more importantly, has seen what breaks product managers long before products fail.
This book is shaped by that experience. It is written for product managers who want to understand the job as it actually exists—beyond theory, frameworks, and idealised versions of product work.
