Lenny's Podcast / episode intelligence
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20 published records
01 / recommendation
“My number one business book that I've recommended would be Five Dysfunctions of a Team, by Patrick Lencioni. I do think it always comes back to team. The right team can solve all the things. And that book is a beautiful distillation of the most common problematic archetypes that show up in a leadership group. So that's the number one.”
02 / recommendation
“My number one business book that I've recommended would be Five Dysfunctions of a Team, by Patrick Lencioni.”
03 / recommendation
“Part of the way I enjoy the work is by having a real friendship, a real intimacy with everyone at Enjoy The Work, and including our clients as well, I want that level of conversation.”
04 / uncertainty
“Be honest with yourself about here's the shit I'm bad at. I don't know how to read a financial statement.”
05 / uncertainty
“Oh, first time I heard of this was Adam Grant. I don't know if he's the originator of the idea.”
06 / belief
“If we think about an ascending startup, there's this phase of I have to invent something.”
07 / belief
“Intuition comes from, in my point of view, a deep understanding of self, and the capacity to get quiet and be well resourced, meaning you've slept well and you've eaten well and you have enough love in your world. And I think what founder-mode can confuse is my intuition says I should just do this job for them and fire these three people.”
08 / belief
“Jonathan, this was incredible. I think we've helped a lot of founders through this conversation.”
09 / belief
“You're just so full of golden nuggets. That's just like a random tangent that I think could be really transformative for a lot of teams.”
10 / belief
“We agree on what success is, what resources are, and you let them go and they'll come back to you when they have questions.”
11 / belief
“We have one for everything and in this example, I think if you're going to be sustainably successful in any kind of job, I don't care what it is, three things have to be true.”
12 / evaluation
“You basically spend all your time working with founders, and through that studying, you create frameworks and training and you use that in your work. I think that's what many, many founders are looking for is how do I avoid pain?”
13 / evaluation
“I think ready, fire, aim is the most common that we've seen, and that has been an affliction that's been growing in the last number of years.”
14 / evaluation
“I'm glad you said that because that's exactly what I believe and I hear often on this podcast is how underappreciated picking your customers in early leads are.”
15 / commitment
“I love that. And I think I've made the mistake during our conversation of confusing founder and CEO and assuming they're the same thing, and I really appreciate you just again pointing out to folks that that's the big distinction you got to start making is there's the founder and there's the CEO.”
16 / recommendation
“The other side, often, has done it many times, and so it's a pretty treacherous and scary and high-stakes thing to do and to learn on the spot. And you've come up with this methodology that you call the Magic Box Paradigm that I love, that helps founders think about how to lead to a successful exit long term.”
17 / evaluation
“We like to joke that more companies die from suicide than homicide, and it's grim, but also if the two or three people in charge of the business can't get along, nothing else matters.”
18 / uncertainty
“The good news is because you said yes, we can do something about it, and the bad news is I don't know what to fucking do.”
19 / evaluation
“We think of these interview stages in a way similar to the book, we use slightly different language, but we think that there is a culture interview, there is a functional interview, and there is a technical interview, but they're designed to get at these notions of have they actually done this kind of work before?”
20 / observation
“" I said, "I think you wake up in the morning angry and you don't know it, and then you get to the office and you beat the crap out of the first employee that crosses paths with you over something utterly unrelated because you're angry.”