11 memorable quotes from Lenny's Podcast guests
“You need to understand motivations in people for building products and for building teams and organizations.”
“The secret to leadership is simple. Do what you believe. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.”
“Process is not the answer. Content is the answer.”
“Great leaders know that when you try to advise and have the answer all the time, you're not actually equipping your team to go solve the hard problems.”
“It's a very special and rare thing, and it gives me a superpower as a leader because I can lean on that when I'm ringing the oil out of somebody who's in the bored and tired zone.”
“Your job is not just to keep people going on momentum. Your job is to make momentum.”
“To me, leadership is broadly defined as having influence in the world, and so by that definition, to me, everyone is a leader because we all have influence in some way.”
“The way that greatness is created is that you find a CEO who's willing to make brave hard decisions and own the results.”
“Companies in a sense are an embodiment of their CEO.”
“Communication is obviously a big part of it.”
“Way too many founders apologize for how they want to run the company. They find some midpoint between how they want to run a company and how the people they lead want to run the company. That's a good way to make everyone miserable.”
