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Lenny’s Podcast100 min

Good Strategy, Bad Strategy

Richard Rumelt · Jan 21, 2024
Key learnings
  • Treat strategy as a response to one or two real challenges, not a list of ambitions, priorities, or aspirations; Rumelt suggests…
  • A solid strategy has three parts: a diagnosis of the situation, a guiding policy for dealing with it, and coherent actions that…
  • Test your strategy for bad signs: goals dressed up as strategy, fluffy jargon, missing diagnosis, and actions that contradict one…
Lenny’s Podcast99 min

The engineering mindset

Will Larson · Jan 7, 2024
Key learnings
  • Treat engineers as capable adults by giving them hard problems and accountability, which lets them grow into senior leadership…
  • Build simple stock-and-flow models of processes like hiring pipelines, then compare them against historical data to find where…
  • Write your engineering strategy down, even imperfectly; an unwritten strategy cannot be debugged or improved, and every function…