Lenny's Podcast / episode intelligence
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19 published records
01 / recommendation
“Well, I already mentioned Radical Candor. I think that is for sure a modern classic and I think that whole idea of challenging directly, but caring personally is very much aligned with what I'm talking about, right? Because you need the relationships and you need to actually speak your truth. So I love Kim Scott's writing on that stuff.”
02 / belief
“I think sort of Carole's approach and nonviolent communication, DBT teaches a similar approach.”
03 / belief
“I think that's actually another blocker for a lot of people is just, "I don't want to be a complaining person.”
04 / commitment
“I will actually be at Wimbledon this year in London with my dad in July and we're going to host a meetup there while I'm there just for anyone listening right now, just to give you a heads up.”
05 / belief
“Thank you so much for sharing so much wisdom with us. I think we've helped a lot of people.”
06 / belief
“One is just coming to terms with, "This is what I actually want to be doing, but I just don't feel like I can because it's going to, I think, upset people.”
07 / belief
“I took one of Stanford's T-Group Weekends, summer of 2020, I think a month after George Floyd was murdered and was facilitated by a black woman.”
08 / belief
“I think a lot of people that think about it, it's just like, "I'd always do this without causing anyone any pain or risking anything going wrong.”
09 / belief
“I think one of the most important balances in terms of the asking step is both asking clearly, but asking with great humility. And this actually works whether you're in a position of power or not because I think a lot of folks will go so far to the end of humility.”
10 / evaluation
“Monday morning, I had my job back. But obviously things were not the same as they'd been before because in the second era, what I wanted was sort of better articulated more clear, but all of a sudden that fear that had been under the surface, that insecurity was now very, very present every day because I was terrified of was I going to get fired?”
11 / evaluation
“" I think what I couldn't be with in that moment was the no's, because I was getting no after no after no after no from Stewart and the rest of the management team saying, "What you're doing is not working for us, right?”
12 / preference
“" And I start to say, "That's not how I operate." Because it's not the discipline doesn't work, but it's like people-pleasing.”
13 / preference
“I think that is for sure a modern classic and I think that whole idea of challenging directly, but caring personally is very much aligned with what I'm talking about, right?”
14 / preference
“For me with clients, I think what I'm often looking for are just kind of this sense of being stuck because everybody has got frustrations.”
15 / evaluation
“We love data for a reason of course. And I think people forget about exactly what you're highlighting, that your relationships matter, and that just your opinion because you believe something or because you want something often that's enough.”
16 / observation
“Because I think that often the founders put together a job description, but then they're faced with a real human being who has real human subtleties and things they're good at or not so good at.”
17 / preference
“Because I think the counterintuitive thing is that often when we really respect people's no's, it can actually be more influential, more motivating.”
18 / commitment
“There wasn't a ton of sort of process or structure in place, suffice to say. And so if I wanted that, I needed to create it myself, but because I hadn't articulated that any of that was important to me, I just flew by the seat of my pants and it took failing to get some data to say, "Ooh, yeah, maybe I need to look at this more closely.”
19 / preference
“" And so often it goes from being this more kind of objective external goal to being a more kind of social emotional goal of, "You know what, I just want to have a team that feels really aligned around me and we're just ready to go for it and we've got each other's backs." That doesn't mean we agree with each other all the time or that we're a hundred percent aligned in everything, but it doesn't mean there's a certain feeling that I have when I go into work.”