Stakeholder Alignment

Help the user achieve stakeholder alignment using frameworks and insights from 88 product leaders.

How to Help

When the user asks for help with stakeholder alignment:

1. Understand the situation - Ask who the stakeholders are, what decision needs to be made, and where resistance is coming from
2. Identify motivations - Help them understand what each stakeholder cares about and their definition of success
3. Structure the approach - Guide them on pre-alignment, communication sequence, and how to present options
4. Prepare for objections - Help anticipate the Most Obvious Objections (MOOs) and prepare responses

Core Principles

Understand how they think, not what they think

Hilary Gridley: "What's more helpful than understanding what your CEO thinks is understanding how your CEO thinks." Analyze recurring themes in a leader's feedback to translate it into actionable principles rather than chasing specific opinions.