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Lenny Rachitsky: belief

16 Apr 2023 Lenny's Podcast How to make better decisions and build a joyful career | Ada Chen Rekhi (Notejoy, LinkedIn, SurveyMonkey)

“" I think the framework is, you got to communicate that you care deeply about that person, but you want to challenge them directly also at the same time.”

— Lenny Rachitsky

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Speaker
Lenny Rachitsky
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
16 Apr 2023
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

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…Yeah, Kim Malone Scott, I think. Yeah. And Sheryl Sandberg had a similar story where she... I think Sheryl Sandberg gave her a really hard feedback and she didn't take it that well, actually. I think you did a better job, or your friend actually took the feedback and did something with it. I think the whole book was just like, "Hey, I actually do this where people actually listen. " I think the framework is, you got to communicate that you care deeply about that person, but you want to challenge them directly also at the same time. Yeah, it's a great story. I think Sheryl Sandberg took her aside after one of her meetings and basically told her that, "If you say um, it makes me sound stupid." And she didn't take that well, but at the same time, later on in retrospect, she reflected that it was so brave and so helpful of someone like Sheryl to go give that feedback because there's a real cost to it. There's real risk to it.…

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