📘 New Guide Just Released: Unlock Product Influence: Stakeholders, Negotiation, and Real Authority → Preview the guide here
(Available exclusively to members of The Product Way)
You’re not always the decision-maker. But you’re still responsible for the outcome. That’s the contradiction most product leaders live with every day. And it’s what makes influence, not control, the real test of leadership. And, this was the focus of August’s TPG Live roundtable discussion.
Now, members of The Product Way can access the complete strategic guide that builds on the live event.
🔍 What This Guide Covers
Influence isn’t about charm or bravado. It’s about clarity, preparation, and strategic leverage.
This deep-dive guide expands on the livestream with practical models and tactical tools, including:
- Surface silent stakeholders and manage shadow vetoes before they stall progress
- Structure negotiation prep for internal tradeoffs—especially when outcomes are unclear
- Build credibility through process, not just personality or title
- Design alignment checkpoints that prevent slow erosion of consensus
- Examples of decision journals that clarify reasoning and make risk tradeoffs visible
🧠 A Key Tactic: The Stakeholder Visibility Check
One actionable takeaway you can use today is the Stakeholder Visibility Check: a kickoff move that prevents future resistance.
Ask: Who could block this later if they’re not included now?
Then:
- List their names
- Identify the triggers that might activate resistance
- Build checkpoints into your plan to keep influence structured, not reactive
This one simple move can save months of misalignment and conflict.
🚪 Membership = Tools + Signal + Access
This guide is part of the Roadmap to Mastery collection on The Product Way — a membership for product professionals serious about leading with clarity and driving change.
Members get:
- Weekly exclusive frameworks and templates
- Deep-dive recaps from TPG Live
- Strategic tools to sharpen judgment and build influence
- And PM Select—our curated introduction service connecting for members and hiring managers
The real value? Becoming someone they want to meet and having the tools to lead like it.
🔑 Ready to Dive In?
Get immediate access with membership to The Product Way.
This week’s release could reshape how you lead your next project — especially if you’re doing it without formal authority.
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