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20 published records
“Two or three books. My number one recommendation is a book called Decisive. It's by Chip and Dan Heath, and it's about the science of making better decisions. The reason I recommend it so much is it will make your career better because leaders are decision makers, but also your personal life. So I apply it at least as much in my personal life as I do in my professional life. My second most recommended book is Leadership and Self Deception, much less known than Decisive, a little bit harder to approach. It's by a group, a research group called the Arbinger Institute, and it's about, the self-deception is we cause a lot of our interpersonal problems while blaming them on others. And it walks through how are you part of the problem you're having with somebody else and what can you do about it? The third and final book was recently brought to me by someone I work with that you know, Jason [inaudible 01:13:21]. That book is The Almanack Of Naval Ravikant. And Naval Ravikant is an angel investor responsible for AngelList. But what I love about that book is he has a recipe. He really boils down how to be successful while loving what you do. And he says, "No one can be a better version of you." Don't try to copy me and be, "I'm going to be like Ethan, or I'm going to be like Lenny." Instead, figure out what you uniquely do best that you love, because no one can copy you being you. And that's your defensible sort of career value. And I really like that mental model.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I'm waiting for my idea to become part of Amazon's drone delivery system, but I think ultimately it will.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I'm not willing to pay what I think the current tickets are, but I would take the risk.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“One of them is around ownership. And apparently you helped craft the actual language for that principle, which I think is a huge deal with Amazon.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Why wouldn't I want people under me who can do more of my job? Frankly, that's the only way I can do less of my job.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Awesome. And I think basically, the feedback there is don't over obsess with the content.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“We get into advice for standing out in interviews, plus some of Amazon's most important and impactful leadership principles and much more. I learned a lot from Ethan and I'm excited to bring you this episode.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I experienced this at Amazon, where over a nine-year period I went from managing six people to 800. And so I went from a senior manager all the way to a vice president, and I described I was, in some sense just riding the elevator.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Ethan, I think we're going to help a lot of people with their career. I think we're going to help them work through failure, become better owners.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I think there's two really important elements of this that you haven't even mentioned necessarily, that I think are part of the reason this works so well.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“The reason I recommend it so much is it will make your career better because leaders are decision makers, but also your personal life.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I think in the post, the way you described this step is this is advanced mode. Don't jump straight to this.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“You mentioned this word inventiveness, and I was just listening to Jeff Bezos on Lex Fridman, and I don't know if you heard this, but Jeff Bezos described himself most as an inventor more than anything else that he does.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I think part of this advice you just shared, which is classic do the job before you have the job makes all the sense in the world.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“It's been modified, but that, "An owner never says that's not my job," is a part of the leadership principle, and it's remained to this debt. And what I love about that is because Amazon has one and a half million employees who live by these leadership principles, it's probably the most impactful thing I've ever written.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I think my favorite interview question is, "Tell me about a time where you needed to disagree with your management, where you needed to stand up or fight for a position against higher leadership or people in power.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“There's so many things we haven't explored with remote work. And I think the people who say, "Back to the office, it's because we know it works," well we know what it is, but I have so much more faith in the opportunity to improve the remote experience.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I've always been sort of an operational cowboy, meaning I like to go fast and loose.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Because if there are 10 startups working on an idea, some of them will gamble, and they'll make bad gambles, and they'll go out of business.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Because basically it was a reaction I think to Microsoft where they felt Microsoft always talked about what was coming and then pushed the dates back.”
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- Lenny's Podcast