Opening
Ian McAllister (00:00:00): If you forget about everything else, forget about politics, forget about promotion, or having a bigger org or whatever, if you simply wake up every day trying to have the biggest impact you can, or if you're a leader trying to use your team to have the biggest impact you can in the company, how you do every part of your day, that's a really good guiding light. Lenny (00:00:22): Ian McAllister (00:03:57): Thanks for having me, Lenny. I've been looking forward to this....
The opener starts with biography before advice. That order makes the guest legible as a person before the listener extracts tactics.
Low-ego framing
trying to have the biggest impact you can, or if you're a leader trying to use your team to have the biggest impact you can in the company, how you do every part of your day, that's a really good...
Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.
Accept praise cleanly
Ian McAllister (00:04:35): Yeah. Man, it's awesome. I'm excited just to spend some time...
Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.
Name the work
and all that, to chat about what makes a top 1% product manager. So I know your post was really titled what separates a 1% PM from a 10% PM, but it feels like it's even broader, just like how do you...
Names a concrete strength, artifact, or contribution instead of offering generic praise.
Low-ego framing
probably falsely attributed to Mark Twain and Hemingway often of just like, I don't know what I've thought until I've written it down. And that's super true with these things and so that's a good example of...
Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.
Accept praise cleanly
. Ian McAllister (01:04:32): All right. Thanks Lenny. Lenny (01:04:34): Thank you so much for listening. If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your...
Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.