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Lenny's Podcast · April 6, 2023 · 65m
Skip-level leadership and managing through change | Nikhyl Singhal
Nikhyl Singhal (Facebook VP, Google VP) on managing through organizational change: layoffs, reorgs, strategy pivots. How to lead when the ground is shifting under your feet. The skills that matter most are not product skills but human skills.
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Singhal: during layoffs and reorgs, leaders cannot control the organizational decisions being made above them. They can control how they communicate, how they support their teams, and how they model resilience.
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Singhal: leaders adopt a false self (calm, confident, all-knowing) during crises. But teams see through it. The true self (uncertain, worried, but committed) creates more trust than the false self ever could.
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