Lenny's Podcast / episode intelligence
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23 published records
01 / recommendation
“The Fearless Organization. I think that book on psychological safety is the bomb. It's so, so, so good. For fiction, I loved The Overstory. It's about trees, and it's mind-blowing and so good. I'm going to leave it at that. Less is better.”
02 / belief
“The Fearless Organization. I think that book on psychological safety is the bomb.”
03 / belief
“I've seen so many companies do extremely well with it, and I would say that not all companies will be successful, period.”
04 / belief
“Ugh, don't like to think about that. And last of all, the thing that I don't see a lot of people talking about that I think is really amazing, is because an OKR focuses you for one quarter and at the end of the quarter you grade your OKRs.”
05 / belief
“I think we've made a big dent in how people perceive OKRs and will utilize OKRs.”
06 / belief
“I agree. I find setting more ambitious goals than you think you can immediately achieve actually really pushes you to achieve them.”
07 / commitment
“I will never forget when people stopped sitting with their disciplines and started sitting with their teams.”
08 / uncertainty
“We just saw Wakanda Forever and it's a very different movie than Black Panther, and my kid and I spent quite a bit of time talking about it and what it meant and it was a lot deeper than I expected. And I'm very passionate about the Mayan people because I live in Belize part of the year, and I don't know, the Mayans are just the OGs of everything, invented zero, writing.”
09 / belief
“We are social. Yeah, and I think moving people around every year or so, everybody hates it.”
10 / belief
“Let's learn from the past." I think if you could slow down, you'll end up going a lot faster.”
11 / belief
“I think you'll never know what you're capable of unless you try to do something that you're not sure you can do.”
12 / evaluation
“I think one of the things that might be off with a lot of the product management education and conferences is, it's good that they take a lot from UX and it is important to be people-centered, but the reality is the product manager serves the business.”
13 / uncertainty
“I don't know if you know they are, so let's just go through them and see how it goes.”
14 / recommendation
“There's nothing better. So, if you don't have a qualitative researcher on your team, I think you should get one.”
15 / recommendation
“" If you could answer that question, you could give up all the OKR stuff, but if you just asked the question, "What are we doing this week to get closer to our strategic goals, our longer term goals?" That is the very heart of it, because there's the tomorrow problem, like my kid will do his homework tomorrow, and tomorrow never comes.”
16 / preference
“That's what the problem is, if you've been a product manager and a designer, all you can see is the flaws. But I would say I like Zoom better than you might think.”
17 / recommendation
“One of the biggest problems founders struggle with is they don't scale very well, but if you can set a good OKR and get people to work on it, then you don't have to decide all those little IC tasks.”
18 / evaluation
“I don't know if you like that title or not, but in my mind that's where you sit currently, and partly because from what I can tell, you've done more to help people with OKRs and understand OKRs and fix their OKR process than most anyone else I know.”
19 / preference
“You're trying to get strong leads out to your advertisers, and that's really important, and you're doing it because you believe that people deserve to have homes that are warm and wonderful.”
20 / disagreement
“I told you what my strategy is." And they don't know how to make decisions, it means something's wrong with the strategy or you aren't being clear, because the conversation always has two people.”
21 / recommendation
“Make sure your grading is secondary to retrospective, is the biggest thing I would say, because that's what's going to be valuable.”
22 / preference
“Oh my gosh, I'm glad you asked because I think the cadence is probably the single most valuable piece of it.”
23 / evaluation
“I love piloting with the best team, but they're still very imbued in your culture, so they'll figure out where OKRs in your culture don't fit.”