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Lenny Rachitsky: belief

23 Jul 2023 Lenny's Podcast The 10 traits of great PMs, how AI will impact your product, and Slack’s product development process | Noah Weiss (Slack, Foursquare, Google)

“On the executing impeccably bucket, the way I think about that is as a great PM you need to have this aura of "I've got this.”

— Lenny Rachitsky

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Lenny Rachitsky
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belief
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23 Jul 2023
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Lenny's Podcast

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…Yeah. Main impact can mean a lot of different things. But it's so true. On the executing impeccably bucket, the way I think about that is as a great PM you need to have this aura of "I've got this. " Anytime someone puts something on your plate, it's not going to fall off. You're not going to forget about it. You're not going to let a ball drop that if the more you can create this aura of "I got this," the more responsibility people are going to give you, the more impact you'll end up having, the more people want to work with you and all that. Yeah. Ben Horowitz was a board member back at Foursquare. I remember he used to have this saying very Yoda of good leaders need to say what they're going to do and then do what they said. If they can't then they need to follow up and explain why. I mean that's like the amendment and I think that is what good execution looks like.…

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