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A PM’s guide to influence

Oct 1, 2024 · 13 min

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Jules Walter, a product leader at Google formerly of YouTube and Slack, lays out five tactics for building influence as a PM: gathering intel on how stakeholders decide, framing proposals from their point of view…

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How to communicate tradeoffs so leaders will listen

Sep 10, 2024 · 21 min

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Tara Seshan, a former Stripe and Watershed product leader, shares a playbook for presenting product tradeoffs so leadership actually makes a decision rather than defaulting to "do both." The post covers framing…

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