People who rely on vision alone have never had their vision be spectacularly, embarrassingly wrong yet. Make sure you don't have lucky-product-manager syndrome,

People who rely on vision alone have never had their vision be spectacularly, embarrassingly wrong yet. Make sure you don't have lucky-product-manager syndrome, where a couple of good decisions early in your career lead you to rely on your gut a lot more than you should. If you're working with a team, you should probably deal with this by gradually earning the full trust of your team - people want to 'resort' to data to make decisions because they don't trust you enough to make a decision that goes against that data. Failing that, you can get better data that supports what you want to do, cast enough doubt on the existing data that people are willing to ignore it, or use your organizational clout to just override them, in descending order of usefulness. If you're working by yourself, you can make any decision you want to, whether the data supports it or not! But if you're the only person affected by the decision and you're still struggling with and having difficulty going against the data, that should tell you something right there - your gut might be speaking, but it's not speaking loudly enough to listen to.