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Alisa Cohn: belief

5 Jan 2025 Lenny's Podcast Scripts for difficult conversations: Giving hard feedback, navigating defensiveness, the three questions you should end every meeting with, more | Alisa Cohn (executive coach)

“I think the sign is when, if you search your mind, you don't really know how this thing is going to come together.”

— Alisa Cohn

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Alisa Cohn
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belief
Recorded
5 Jan 2025
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

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…I guess, is there a sign that you're like, it's probably a process thing and you're just ignoring a glaring problem that everyone else sees? I think the sign is when, if you search your mind, you don't really know how this thing is going to come together. There's no plan in your mind. You haven't touched in with people or talked to people about what's going on. You kind of hear this uncomfortable silence about it. Those are symptoms that you just need to dive deeper and just be a little more in touch with what's going on and talk to some folks and look at some data. And by the way, it might not be a massive process problem. It might just be one little thing that needs to get unstuck but you, as the leader, need to recognize that and figure out a way to make that unstuck. And if there's, of course, a big problem that needs to somehow be just surfaced. So if there's this hope this'll work out versus I see a path to this working out, it's probably a problem. Awesome.…

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