Episode · Lenny's Podcast · 2024-10-06
Lenny Rachitsky & John Mark Nickels: books mentioned on Lenny's Podcast
Becoming a conscious leader: Leading without fear, finding your life’s objective function, and getting better at vision and strategy | John Mark Nickels (Uber, Waymo, DoorDash)
JM Nickels is a Senior Director of Product Management at Uber. Previously, he was Head of Product for Commercialization at Waymo and led product teams at DoorDash.
John Mark Nickels recommended Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl, The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership by Diana Chapman and others, and Resonate by Nancy Duarte, and discussed Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull and others, Principles by Ray Dalio, and How will you measure your life? by Clayton M. Christensen. Lenny Rachitsky recommended Getting Things Done by David Allen.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Creativity, Inc.
Discussed“when if you read C M's book right where like how they come up with Toy Story and inside out all these things right is like they have this group of people that just sits around riffing on ideas”
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Getting Things Done
Recommended“I tried to do the David Allen GTD Thing Once you know the super complicated uh you know organization system and it's like it was too much structure for me”
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Principles
Discussed“that's why I love like Ray alio principle thing where it's like hey write down your values and your principles and get you know clear on what they are”
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How will you measure your life?
Discussed“he's obviously known for Innovative but he wrote a book called how will you measure your life and like he was trying to answer this question of like you know he teaches whatever you know MBA students at at Harvard”
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Man's Search for Meaning
Recommended“like I think you know uh Victor frankl's man search for meaning is probably the best example of that like he's in a super oppressive you know situation that very horrific and tragic”
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The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership
Recommended“the best one is uh the the 15 commitments of conscious leadership by uh di Chapman and Jim duthler and those were my kind of early coaches and teachers”
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Resonate
Recommended“I love her book resonate and then she has some other ones too on design but like what was so cool about that I give it to PMS all the time when I'm trying to help them develop their communication storytelling and presentation skills”
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“oh man all there's another ramas uh line that I often use with my wife be here now which is the title of his book that everyone sees with the blue cover”