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Stakeholder Management for Product Leaders
O'Reilly Media · Print & ebook · July 9, 2024
Product management naturally incorporates empathy, psychology, and thinking outside the box in pursuit of the best design for products.
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- Who it’s for
- Stakeholder management connects trust, communication, buy-in, and difficult conversations to product leadership.
- Genres
- Project Management, Leadership, Business Communication
- Published
- O'Reilly Media, July 9, 2024
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Product management naturally incorporates empathy, psychology, and thinking outside the box in pursuit of the best design for products. But how often do you apply those same skills to your relationships with people in your company? By breaking the art of stakeholder management into simple lessons and frameworks, this practical book shows product managers how to manage the crucial relationships that will help you make an impact and advance your career.
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You'll learn how to build trusting relationships with stakeholders, optimize your communication for different audiences, get buy-in for your ideas and roadmaps, and have stakeholders appreciate it when you say no. You'll learn how to: - Build and maintain trust with your stakeholders - Map your organization and identify the real power players - Establish roles and build an extended team that works well together - Communicate in a way that speaks to the needs and goals of different stakeholders - Get buy-in on your ideas and roadmap - Make stakeholders appreciate and support you when you say "no" - Sustain buy-in over time - Manage difficult stakeholders and personalities
Stakeholder Relationships
Stakeholder management connects trust, communication, buy-in, and difficult conversations to product leadership.
Come here for
- Building and maintaining stakeholder trust
- Mapping organizational power players
Expect
- Communication shaped around different stakeholders’ goals
- Guidance on buy-in, saying no, and difficult stakeholders
Where it sits
| Project Management | 32% |
|---|---|
| Business Communication | 30% |
| Leadership | 29% |
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Publisher categories
- Quality Control
- Strategic Planning
- Operations Management
- Product Design
- Authors
- Bruce McCarthy, Melissa Appel
- Publisher
- O'Reilly Media
- Published
- July 9, 2024
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
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