Jessica Fain: belief

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…It's my pleasure. Let's set this conversation up. We're going to be talking about the skill and the art of influence, and in particular, influencing executives and leaders. People above you that you want to convince to do things you want them to do. Help us understand why this is worth people's time. Why is this worth the next hour of someone listening to this? Why is this skill so important to people's careers? I think as product builders, there's almost not a skill that's more important. Influence and building momentum behind great ideas is the way that great products actually get built. And if you don't have that influence, if you don't have the buy-in and the backing of your key stakeholders, of your executives, you can't build great products. Something that I personally went through is just like... I was in a period of like, I don't need to work on this skill. I'm just like, I'm just going to do amazing work. It's going to show itself, of everyone's going to recognize it. And everyone run into this wall of like, oh man, all these other people are getting promoted. Maybe talk about that because it feels like that's a big trap. People run into you.…

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