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22 Mar 2026 Lenny's Podcast The art of influence: The single most important skill that AI can’t replace | Jessica Fain (Webflow, ex-Slack)
“If we each think of ourselves as owners and as contributors to the business and as leaders, we will bring those opportunities up as well to both amplify the business or save it from itself.”
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- 22 Mar 2026
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…That's where I was going to go, is just like that's the ultimate trust building move is to tell the leaders, "Okay, here's our goal, here's all these ideas, but we don't think this is the right goal and here's how this doesn't fit in and here's why we should kill this product." Right, exactly. Right. Think like a CPO. Put yourself in their shoes. You had Stewart on a few weeks ago and he talked about how the CEO is kind of the only one who can really kill things, things that already exist, or really make some of those super, super tough decisions. I think that is oftentimes our culture, but is a mistake. If we each think of ourselves as owners and as contributors to the business and as leaders, we will bring those opportunities up as well to both amplify the business or save it from itself. Do the job you want versus the job you have. Classic.…
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