Noah Weiss: belief

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…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. That last point is so important. You may not be able to do all the things on your plate, but just telling people. Hey, I'm not going to get to this thing. Let's reprioritize as such a small thing you could do and really creates that, or if you got this, they're not going to forget about this thing asked you to do.…

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