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Build organizational trust**1. Adopt the right mindset**
Influencing others is not about pushing your agenda. Instead, it’s about:
**Guiding a group of people to solve a problem together.**
To do this well, you need to have the mindset to:
1. **Put the organization first.** People can tell if you only care about your own goals.
2. **Show intellectual honesty.** Seek the truth and be willing to change your mind.
3. **Create shared ownership.** Give others as much credit and ownership as possible.
4. **Invest in relationships.** Put in time and effort with key stakeholders upfront.
5. **Drive alignment.** Understand people’s concerns to get them on board.
10 Proven Tactics to Influence People and Level Up Your Soft Skills
Peter Yang
Often, in his work advising companies on the Lean Startup methodology, he meets executives at large enterprises who want to kill small experiments—saplings in this analogy—because they don’t yet “move the needle,” meaning they’re not generating, say, $100 million in revenue, enough to make a difference for the business. They’re not yet giant trees. Eric points out, sure, the experiment is not yet generating that level of revenue, but it’s impossible to know which new experiments will be the next big $100 million line of business. “If you knew which ideas would be hits, of course you’d only do those. But of course, nobody knows ahead of time, so you have to be willing to plant a lot of seeds and watch them grow.” When they start to sprout, don’t step on them, citing how small they are. Rather, water them and give them sunlight. Or, in corporate-speak, invest more.
Ask Your Developer
Jeff Lawson
There is no formula for an effective product strategy. Such a strategy requires immersing in the insights, the data, the customers, the technology, and the industry trends and learnings; assimilating as much of the relevant information as possible; and then thinking through the various options. This is often referred to as product sense, but it's really the result of spending all this time immersed in the details.
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