AMA: Square Product Lead, Carrie Zhang on Influencing the C-Suite

We can be more tactful and realize we don’t need to rely on logical reasoning alone! To this date, I am still amazed at how one of my colleagues got an executive to chang...

Can relate to this question! I definitely struggled with similar situations earlier in my career. Interestingly I got the solution from the executives I was working with ...

This likely depends on the size of the company and the different rituals you may have. Obviously the bigger the org, the harder it is to get direct exposure to the c-suit...

I don’t think we should try and align with certain people. Product development is about solving customer problems. So fundamentally I think we should deeply understand ou...

I think first of all, we need to have our own opinions of relative priorities. There are so many frameworks out there on prioritization. For me, it always comes down to a...

Not sure these can be called “best” habits. Just some principles I try to follow myself.Take a top management perspective. This means elevating your thinking to that leve...

Ultimately c-suite needs to allocate resources that generate business value. So I think the best way to influence that is to make sure what you are working on produces th...