Lenny DistilledLeadership → Influence Without Authority
The thought experiment, for me, is always coming out of that, do I feel compelled to work on that problem? And no matter how boring it sounds on the surface, I think a really great product manager can cash something, it's like, well, this is why it's so existential for us, and this why it's so interesting, and really rally the troops up.
No matter how boring it sounds on the surface, I think a really great product manager kind of casts something. It's like, 'Well, this is why it's so existential and this is why it's so interesting, and really rallied the troops up.'
I ask them about a big problem they worked on. The thought experiment for me is: do I feel compelled to work on that problem? A really great product manager can make something sound existential and interesting, and really rally the troops.
If you have an insight that only you have... if you have an insight that other people are not seeing, it is even more on you to get people onto the same page.
If your audience isn't wondering what you're about to say, they're no longer listening to you. And you have to internalize that in a deep and fundamental way. I assume all the time, 100% of the time, that no one wants to hear anything I have to say. And so I am relentless in my attempt to get the audience to be constantly wondering what the next sentence is.