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Who do you align yourself with to gain momentum in the leadership organization?

Derek Ferguson
GitLab Group Product Manager8mo
Building the right alliances is fairly critical for building your own organizational capital and driving change. Find the right people to ally yourself with and don’t be ...
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Aindra Misra
BILL Director, Product Management (Data, AI, DevEx, Identity) | Formerly Twitter/X11mo
It's a 3 to 4 way alignment to help you succeed as a PMYour engineering team who helps build your product visionYour PM team who helps with shares your portfolio (This is...
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Poorvi Shrivastav
Meta Senior Director of Product Management4y
Alignment is a function of trust, respect and growth. I do not practice aligning for the sake of gaining political clout in an organization. I often start with a well ro...
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Jacqueline Porter
IBM Product Management2y
I usually align myself with other parts of the organization's metrics and OKRs rather than a specific person. When you are supporting others' metrics they are accountable...
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Nicolas Liatti
Adobe Senior Director of Product Management, 3D Category2y
Early in your career the only person you need to influence for getting promoted is usually your manager.As you grow and try to reach the C-Suite, there is not 1 single pe...
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Carrie Zhang
Square Product Lead2y
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...
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