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How to get better at influence

Sep 20, 2022 · 12 min

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Lenny uses the Lord of the Rings, especially Frodo's journey, as a lens for how product managers can build influence without relying on formal authority. He walks through seven strategies, each illustrated with Airbnb…

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How Shopify builds a high-intensity culture

Farhan Thawar · Dec 19, 2024

Key learnings

Choose the harder path when options are close: even if it fails, you gain skills and work with stronger people, whereas the easy…
Write down a personal framework of what you care about in a job, and use it to filter opportunities and decide when to leave a…
Build intensity by producing more output per minute rather than adding hours; a focused hour with strong people can outpace a…

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