Episode · Lenny's Podcast · 2022-07-24
Lenny Rachitsky & Ken Norton: books mentioned on Lenny's Podcast
How to unlock your product leadership skills | Ken Norton, Ex-Google
Advancing as a product leader requires new skills and a new mindset. Ken Norton is an executive coach who works with some of the top people in product to help them get unstuck and find creativity again in their approach to problems and their careers.
Ken Norton recommended Dare to Lead by Brené Brown, The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership by Diana Chapman and others, Mastering Leadership by Robert J. Anderson and others, Immunity to Change by Robert Kegan and others, and The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Dare to Lead
Recommended“Um Brené Brown's uh Dare to Lead is a good book and she actually even has a whole section in there around values, sort of confronting your values. I like her approach.”
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The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership
Recommended“The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership book is fantastic. There's a and and you don't even need to to buy the book. There's a ton of stuff on their website.”
Where to get it
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Mastering Leadership
Recommended“Bob Anderson and Bill Adams' book Mastering Leadership creates the sort of um uh the entire sort of system, integrated system around creative versus reactive. Um and and sort of as a teaser, they they identify five levels of leadership”
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Immunity to Change
Recommended“Um from an adult development standpoint, um Robert Kegan is is sort of the the the godfather of the adult stage development work and the sort of meaning-making that that underlies a lot of this. Um he has a great book called Immunity to Change”
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The Innovator's Dilemma
Recommended“Um and it's just uh add books I've never recommended before. Uh probably Innovator's Dilemma. It's probably my number one favorite book for for product managers and product leaders.”
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Gilgamesh
“It's not even It's like the the flood myth from Gilgamesh showing up in, you know, all the sort of oral histories of the world, right? It's not new.”