Episode · Lenny's Podcast · 2022-08-28
Lenny Rachitsky & Wes Kao: books mentioned on Lenny's Podcast
Persuasive communication and managing up | Wes Kao (Maven, Seth Godin, Section4)
Wes Kao has worked with Seth Godin (where she co-founded the altMBA and served as executive director), David Perell on his Write of Passage course, Professor Scott Galloway on Section4, and Morning Brew. Currently, she’s the co-founder of Maven, a cohort-based learning platform where I taught my own course.
Wes Kao recommended It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences by June Casagrande and Guide to Better Business Writing by Harvard Business Review.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences
Recommended“so one of the books that that I've been recommending and I think I'm jumping ahead to potentially a lightning round question but uh not allow it it's it's a book called it was best of sentences it was the worst of sentences by June KAS Grande”
Where to get it
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Guide to Better Business Writing
Recommended“so we'll link this the show notes and another one is better business writing by Harvard Business press they have a whole series on you know leadership managing up writing Etc and I recommend those two books usually to to new team members”
Where to get it
