LLenny's Podcast
← All resources
company

Stanford Graduate School of Business

By Stanford University

0 recommend/use · 6 sourced episodes

Every sourced reference

Short attributed excerpts only. Timestamps are approximate.

Related frameworks

Mindset5 steps

Abundance Engineering: Fun, Energy, and the Paper Audit

Deliberately manufacture an abundant mindset by reframing for fun, scheduling for energy, and journaling the triggers.

Read →
Self-Mastery3 steps

Accountability Structure for Life Goals

Hire (or partner up as) a coach for your life the way you'd hire a personal trainer for your body.

Read →
Self-Mastery3 steps

Anger as a Secondary Emotion

Before reacting in anger, name the fear or hurt beneath it — connecting emotions replace the distancing one

Read →
Leadership4 steps

Autonomy as Selfish Leadership

Let people bring themselves to the work; you trade a little visibility for higher velocity, morale, and results.

Read →
Influence5 steps

Behavioral Pricing: Compromise, Decoy and Framing

Raise revenue 30%+ by reframing tiers and framing prices — without touching the product.

Read →
Strategy4 steps

Be the Historian

Systematically reconstruct why past decisions were made so you inherit the lessons and see the baggage.

Read →
Productivity3 steps

Daily Goal-and-Three-Actions Ritual

Each day write your aspirational identity, then three actions to move toward it.

Read →
Leadership5 steps

Depth Without Stomping

Go deep on the details of the business, then course-correct by seeding hypotheses instead of overruling.

Read →
Influence5 steps

Difficult Personality Protocol: Drivers and Gratitude

Reverse-engineer what a difficult person cares about, then reframe frustration into what you can learn from them.

Read →
Self-Mastery5 steps

Do Power: Closing the Knowing-Doing Gap

Turn power principles into skill through goal-setting, staged practice, and coaching

Read →
Leadership5 steps

Founder-Mode Navigation: Objective Behind the Ask

Treat the founder as a lever, and every founder directive as a mechanism hiding an objective.

Read →
Communication7 steps

Hard Feedback, Both Directions

Receive: feel it, don't react, come back curious. Give: state the care out loud, then be direct about perception.

Read →
Strategy5 steps

How You Charge Beats How Much: Pricing-Model Design

Pick the monetization model, then the price metric, then the structure — the number comes last.

Read →
Leadership4 steps

Inquiry Before Advice (Be a Thought Partner)

Resist giving advice — explore first, keep the monkey on their back, and develop the person instead of the answer

Read →
Marketing5 steps

Leaders, Fillers and Killers

Sort every feature into leader, filler or killer to configure packages that unlock segments.

Read →
Mindset3 steps

Limiting Beliefs to To-Do Items

Drag subconscious fears onto paper, where they lose their power and become solvable tasks.

Read →
Influence5 steps

Networking as Brokerage

Build power by generously connecting people and cultivating weak ties

Read →
Self-Mastery4 steps

Nine Lives Exercise

List nine lives you'd be excited to live — all starting today — then pull the best one into your current life.

Read →
Communication3 steps

Pinch Before Crunch

Raise small irritations early, while they're still a pinch, before they compound into a relationship-damaging crunch

Read →
Strategy6 steps

Price Before Product: The Willingness-to-Pay Conversation

Have the pricing conversation months before launch and use it to prioritize what you build.

Read →
Marketing5 steps

Productize to Segments (the 'You Can Act Differently' Test)

Segments are defined by needs and willingness to pay — and only count if you can act differently on them.

Read →
Communication4 steps

Repair: What Did You Hear Me Say?

When a response feels wildly off, ask 'what did you hear me say?' — then re-try from what they actually heard

Read →
Strategy4 steps

Scale the Bright Spots (Quit-vs-Persist Criteria)

Persist while you can still see the vision and find green shoots to scale; quit when the vision dies.

Read →
Marketing4 steps

Small-Pond ICP Narrowing

Constrain your first ICP so tightly that customers talk to each other — then let word of mouth light the fire.

Read →
Communication5 steps

Summarize, Checkpoint, One Click Better

Manufacture strategic thinking in real time by synthesizing the room, then improving the idea one click.

Read →
Communication4 steps

The 15% Rule

Step just 15% beyond your comfort zone to deepen relationships without triggering the danger zone

Read →
Strategy3 steps

The 51-49 Decision Rule

When options are near-even, just pick one fast — more data won't meaningfully improve a close call.

Read →
Leadership5 steps

The 70% Decision, Reward the Learning

Commit at 70% confidence with an explicit hypothesis, then iterate — and reward learning, not outcomes.

Read →
Marketing4 steps

The Acceptable / Expensive / Prohibitively Expensive Price Ladder

Three questions that reveal both a price range and the psychological cliffs you must hide behind.

Read →
Innovation4 steps

The AI Expertise Layer

Don't outsource all AI to foundation models — keep expertise and measurement to break the quality glass ceiling.

Read →
Communication5 steps

The Appear-Powerful Playbook

Concrete body-language and presence tactics that signal power, all learnable

Read →
Communication3 steps

The Art of Inquiry

Ask genuine what/when/where/how questions from real curiosity — never 'why', never to confirm a hypothesis

Read →
Strategy3 steps

The Break-Even Indifference Test

Offer economically identical pricing models and see which one people irrationally prefer.

Read →
Innovation4 steps

The Design-Partner Pod Model

Give each cross-functional pod 6-12 real customers to co-build with, so features ship pre-validated.

Read →
Finance3 steps

The Downturn Pricing Playbook (Never Drop the Price)

Three moves that protect price integrity in a recession: de-feature, non-pricing actions, change the model.

Read →
Self-Mastery3 steps

The Genie Framework

Assume success is guaranteed, then work backward to find what you'd actually pursue.

Read →
Influence3 steps

The Panini Effect

Show your product line as an unfinished puzzle and attach rates jump from 20% to 40-50%.

Read →
Mindset4 steps

The Power–Autonomy Trade-off

You can have power or autonomy, but not both — choose deliberately

Read →
Strategy5 steps

The Product-Adjacent Inroad

Break into PM by moving internally from a product-adjacent function, trading domain knowledge for the role.

Read →
Productivity3 steps

The Research Coordinator Role

Borrow the recruiting-coordinator role to schedule all customer research, so PMs never lose time to logistics.

Read →
Influence7 steps

The Seven Rules of Power

Seven learnable skills for building influence and advancing a career, whether you like it or not

Read →
Communication6 steps

The Six Characteristics of Exceptional Relationships

A diagnostic checklist of six qualities that mark how far a relationship sits along the contact-to-exceptional continuum

Read →
Self-Mastery3 steps

The Spiral Method for Learning Fast

Chain expert-to-expert referrals until you hear only repeats — that's how you know you've hit the bullseye.

Read →
Strategy5 steps

The Strategic Formula: Simple Why x Change Agent

Being seen as strategic = articulating a compelling, simple why AND championing big, hard ideas.

Read →
Communication4 steps

The Three Realities and the Net

Stay on your side of the net — speak only to behavior and your own reaction, never the other person's motives

Read →
Mindset3 steps

Worse-First / Five-Year-Self Decision Test

Anything worth having gets worse before it gets better — so decide from your five-year self, not tomorrow.

Read →

People in these episodes

Related resources

Spot an error or want this page removed? Request a correction or removal.