My typical tactics for influencing leaders at different levels

Jason Yip
3 min readJan 31

Originally presented at Agile Lean Ireland.

Leaders at different levels have distinct goals and context, therefore the tactics you use to influence leaders at different levels should also be distinct.

NOTE: specific organisations and situations will vary

Levels of leaders

  1. L1: Leaders of teams or individuals;
  2. L2: Leaders of leaders;
  3. L3: Leaders of leaders of leaders;
Jason Yip

Senior Manager Product Engineering at Grainger. Extreme Programming, Agile, Lean guy. Ex-Spotify, ex-ThoughtWorks, ex-CruiseControl