How To Influence Without Authority As a Product Manager
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7 min readJun 16, 2020
Product managers have a unique challenge in that they own the product, yet they have no direct control over how the product is built, marketed or supported.
As a result, Product Managers need to do a lot of influencing without authority. They influence:
- Stakeholders to buy into their product vision (and say no to bad ideas)
- Designs and tech teams to deliver their product to market
- Marketers to feature their product in campaigns