Kapoor: Highlighting only positives in reviews makes executives distrust you
Mohika (Mihika) · How To Do The Product Review Right (By Doing It Wrong) | Lenny & Friends Summit 2024 · Nov 20, 2024 · at 17:24
Mihika Kapoor, Product Lead at Figma, explains how presenting purely one-sided pitches backfires with leadership during product reviews.
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“A common tactic that folks employ is to only talk about the really positive things. Only talk about all the reasons that this would be an exciting investment, like this outdoes all the others, and more. But chances are, if you're trying to go ahead and only talk about the good things, you might actually have an executive who either asks you, or in their head is thinking, What are the downsides? And in exec speak, they're actually wondering if you've thought about this deeply, or worse, are you hiding something? The trust kind of breaks.”
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