Stakeholders: The real product challenge?
A challenging CEO, misalignment with sales, stalling with legal. Are you one of the 40% experiencing challenging stakeholder dynamics every month? In a rare look inside the power struggles shaping senior product leadership today, we surveyed nearly 100 experienced CPO and VPs of product, and the findings revealed a sobering truth: stakeholder misalignment is quietly stalling product leaders’ success.
What's covered?
It’s not product that keeps you up at night – it’s people
40% of product leaders spend 4-10 weekly hours managing stakeholders.
Alignment: A product leader’s biggest challenge
The top three challenges include: Aligning stakeholders on priorities, managing conflicting opinions, and keeping everyone updated.
Executives/C-Suite are often the most challenging stakeholder group
52% of respondents report executives/C-suite stakeholders to be their most challenging stakeholder.
About this eBook
The eBook gathers the insights of 100 Director/VP of Product, Team Leaders/Managers, and C-level Product Executives with 4 to 10+ years of experience in the field, to uncover how much stakeholder management really weighs on their roles and influences success. But this is not just a report. It features expert insights from Lucid CPO Dan Lawyer and product leadership coach Joy Adamson, and their actionable strategies to navigate stakeholder management.
They spoke their truth – and the results were more honest than we expected. Will these findings come as a surprise to you, or will they be surprisingly relatable?
