Lenny Rachitsky: belief

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…Well... Eric, we've given people a lot to think about. I think there's a lot of just like, "Oh wow, I should really think about this and take this seriously. " What's a final thought, final nugget, final lesson you want to leave listeners with before we get out of here? Let's talk about Mary Parker Follett. I mentioned her in passing and I feel like, "You know what? I bet a bunch of people have never heard of her." So let me give you one more blast from the past. Most people have heard of someone named Frederick Winslow Taylor. Fred Taylor's good friend of mine with a pioneering original management theorist. He wrote The Principles of Scientific Management in 1911, and Taylorism was one of the most popular management fads of all time. If you think we have fads now, you should see Taylorism. It was like debated at the Supreme Court. It was front page news in the 19 teens. Taylor, they made movies about him. He was an incredibly famous person. But one of his contemporaries was a woman. Her name was Mary Parker Follett. And her work is so far ahead of its time that if you read it today, you would think this person lived in 2026. She would write things like, "We need to focus on power with, not power over." She said, "The superior and the subordinate together obey the law of the situation," meaning we work together to figure out what the situation requires. We don't just tell the subordinate what to do. She said, "The job of a leader, the hallmark of a leader is, can they create more leaders?" So if someone said that to you right now, you'd be like, "Oh, that's going on TikTok right this second."…

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