What do product managers get wrong when trying to influence the C-Suite?
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Atlassian Head of Product, Enterprise Strategy and Planning • 3y
3 most common pitfalls I see are: Not simple enough Not investing into understanding broader context (outside of one's product area) Wrong words-to-numbers ratio Lack ...
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Figma Product, AI • 8mo
A few common anti-patterns I've seen:Always agreeing with the feedback you get live in a meeting quickly. If feedback is worth changing your plans for, ask clarifying and...
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Meta Senior Director of Product Management • 4y
A common mistake most product managers and sometimes even senior product leaders make while convincing c-suite in favor of a particular decision is bringing in tunnel vis...
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Square Product Lead • 2y
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...
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Adobe Senior Director of Product Management, 3D Category • 2y
The biggest mistake is to think that the C-Suite will listen to you because you have a super idea.If you want to influence the C-Suite, you need to influence all the func...
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Boxford Capital Managing Partner | Formerly Barracuda, SilverSky, Digital Guardian, OpenPages, Cybertrust • 3y
Overwhelmingly, speaking the wrong language. Get out of the weeds, execs want to hear dollars and cents - business outcomes. Don't talk about user satisfaction in a vacuu...
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IBM Product Management • 2y
Assuming the C-Suite is right Not coming with a clear decision point to a call Not having sufficient data or research to justify the product investment Over preparing det...
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