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Lenny’s Newsletter · Free post♥ 612

My favorite product management templates

Aug 4, 2020 · 5 min

“Hello and welcome to thefree monthly editionof my weekly newsletter. I’m Lenny, and each week I humbly tackle reader questions about product, growth, working with humans, and anything else that’s stressing you out at the office. Q: I’ve seen you share a few PM templates in the past. Do you have a place to find all of your favorite templates? Now I do! Below are all of my favorite templates and frameworks that I rely on. As a bonus, I…”

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Lenny’s Podcast88 min

Leveraging mentors to uplevel your career

Jules Walter · Jan 5, 2023
Key learnings
  • Build skills one at a time, dedicating a few months to each with weekly practice tied to a concrete outcome rather than just…
  • Create a forcing-function outcome when learning something new, then work backwards to the questions you need answered and seek…
  • Practice interviewing with dozens of mock interviews, ideally with people skilled at interviewing, since interviewers rarely give…
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Lenny’s Podcast116 min

The art of influence: The single most important skill that AI can’t replace

Jessica Fain · Mar 22, 2026
Key learnings
  • Treat stakeholder conversations as discovery interviews: go in to learn and strengthen your plan, not simply to get approval for…
  • Remember executives have chaotic calendars and little context on your topic, so spend under 60 seconds at the start restating why…
  • Ground your pitch in the executive's success metrics and board pressures, and show explicitly how your proposal moves those…
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