How To Influence Without Authority As a Product Manager

Product Dave πŸ’‘
Product Coalition
Published in
7 min readJun 16, 2020

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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

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