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influence-craft

Navigates organizational politics — maps power dynamics, builds coalitions, and develops influence strategies without formal authority. Use when user mentions 'buy-in,' 'company politics,' 'managing up,' 'building coalitions,' or 'influence without authority.' For formal stakeholder registers, see project-stakeholder. For feedback and relationship management, see stakeholder-craft. This is the influence methodology.

  • Area: People
  • Category: human resources
  • Level: beginner
  • Input: conversation
  • Output: document
  • Setup: none
  • Roles: CEO / Founder, Product Manager

Navigates organizational politics — maps power dynamics, builds coalitions, and develops influence strategies without formal authority.

How you ask

  • “Map the power dynamics in my organization”
  • “How do I build buy-in for my proposal without authority?”
  • “Identify the key stakeholders I need to influence”
  • “Develop an influence strategy for this cross-functional project”

Inputs

  • request — What to produce
  • scope — company, or a client-id under {company.clients}/ — a string with one reserved value, not a closed set

Outputs

  • influence-craft (markdown)
  • {scope.knowledge-base.product}/influence-craft-{YYYY-MM-DD}.md