Lenny’s Podcast101 min
Becoming a conscious leader: Leading without fear, finding your life’s objective function, and getting better at vision and strategy
John Mark Nickels · Oct 6, 2024
Key learnings
- Treat leadership as any influence you have, not just formal management, and take responsibility for how you show up with others.
- When stressed in high-stakes meetings, first allow the emotion and thought rather than fighting it, since resisting it tends to…
- Stop seeking approval or self-worth from presentations and outcomes; anchoring to the mission and the product often improves both…