Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco)
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Shweta Shrivastava (00:00:00): Are you proactively trying to challenge your own assumptions is extremely important, right? As a big enough product manager as well as a seasoned product leader, if you're not doing enough of that, then I think you might not be listening. If there's no conflict, if there's no contention, then something is missing....
The opener starts with biography before advice. That order makes the guest legible as a person before the listener extracts tactics.
title: "Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco)" date: "2023-04-09" type: "podcast" guest: "Shweta Shriva" channel: "Lenny's...
Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.
(00:03:47): Shweta, welcome to the podcast. Shweta Shrivastava (00:03:49): Thank you. Great to be here. Lenny (00:03:52): It's great to have you. I thought we'd start with just a little bit about...
Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.
And it's interesting, there's no eye contact involved and it's just like this, I don't know, gesture that you all have to develop. Lenny (00:05:54): And so, I guess, the question here is just like what...
Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.
* (00:41:04): Exactly what we wish for. Lenny (00:41:07): There's your KPI. Thank you again for being here. Two final questions, where can folks find you online if they want to learn more, reach out, ask...
Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.
Shweta Shrivastava (00:41:04): Exactly what we wish for. Lenny (00:41:07): There's your KPI. Thank you again for being here. Two final questions, where can folks find you online if they want to learn more, reach out, ask you maybe some questions, maybe apply to join Waymo if you're hiring, and how can listeners be useful to you? Shweta Shrivastava (00:41:20): You can find me on LinkedIn. And then if you are interested in opportunities at Waymo, go to Waymo career web page. You should see all the open positions....
The ending stays curious after the formal conversation is almost done.