Lenny Distilled

Ask specific questions to get real feedback

Leadership → Stakeholder Management

If you say, 'Do you have any feedback for me?' You're wasting your breath. The other person's going to say, 'Oh no, everything's fine.' The question that I like to ask is, 'What could I do or stop doing that would make it easier to work with me?'

Kim ScottInside Devin: The AI engineer that's set to write 50% of its company's code this year | Scott Wu
Supporting

Six seconds is a really long time. Almost nobody can endure six full seconds of silence. So they'll probably tell you something.

Kim ScottInside Devin: The AI engineer that's set to write 50% of its company's code this year | Scott Wu
Supporting

Always answer the question that they should have asked.

Paige CostelloHow to ask the right questions, project confidence, and win over skeptics
Nuanced

I reflect back what I imagine are the thoughts in your head. If I think you're feeling anger, I sort of think to myself, well, what would anger feel like? I cause myself to feel that anger, then what are the thoughts that appear to me?

Matt MocharyAre your fears giving you terrible advice? | Matt Mochary