Your exec team expects one thing from you first and foremost: a clear strategy, direction, and roadmap. If you don’t deliver that within your first 90 days, you’re already losing ground.
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But here’s where a lot of CPOs go wrong — they think they need to lock themselves away with their team, cook up a brilliant plan, and emerge with ‘the strategy’ like it’s been handed down from the mountaintop. That’s a mistake.
Your job isn’t just to define strategy — it’s to lead the strategy process. That means bringing the exec team along, aligning stakeholders, learning from each other, and making sure you have buy in. A strategy nobody believes in is just a PowerPoint. A strategy everyone owns is how you win. See more at CPO.studio.
Aligned Card Game
Product Coach Melissa Appel will be at the Boston Product Management Association, November 13, with a hands-on Stakeholder Management Card Game. Coming?
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