7 tips for Women (or anyone) in Tech who Want to be Leaders: Jennifer Lawrence, Duo Security:

Name: 7 tips for Women (or anyone) in Tech who Want to be Leaders: Jennifer Lawrence, Duo Security:
Uploaded: 2018-08-02T14:50:36+00:00
Duration: 2 min 18 s
Channel: Jason M. Lemkin
Description: In this concise talk, the speaker—an experienced leader at Duo Security—offers seven practical pieces of advice aimed at women and early‑career…

2 Aug 2018 · 2 min

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In this concise talk, the speaker—an experienced leader at Duo Security—offers seven practical pieces of advice aimed at women and early‑career professionals who aspire to leadership roles in technology. The guidance emphasizes taking initiative before feeling fully prepared, expressing gratitude, assuming positive intent in communications, recognizing and investing in the “doers” who execute work, caring for people beyond metrics, focusing on hitting performance targets as a natural outcome of the previous behaviors, and maintaining a relentless hustle mindset. The speaker frames each tip with personal anecdotes and a collaborative perspective, encouraging listeners to adopt these habits to achieve impact and advancement within their organizations.

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Lastly, advice for other women in tech who want to be leaders. So where are my girls at? Got, got a few here. Alright, alright. So this is really for women, and it's also for people who are early career who want to be leaders. So number 1, jump in before you believe you're ready. Number 2, I think this is super important. We all get really busy. We expect a lot from people, but remember to say thank you. It goes a long way. 3, this is something that I learned probably— I probably— it was my biggest learning at Duo is to assume positive intent, right? Because you're going to get that email from the VP of marketing that signed you up for another conference the last week of the quarter and you're like, "What a doofus. Why is he doing this?" And it's actually like, it's a really important thing that you can learn to pause and before you have a negative reaction, you have to assume positive intent. Like we're all in the same boat rowing together. We're all trying to do big things for the organization and hit the same goals. So to pick up the phone and have a conversation, like assuming positive intent I think takes you a really, really long way. And then I firmly believe the most important people in an organization are the doers. Like, thank them and invest in them. They're the ones that matter. You treat them like anything else and you won't be successful. Care about the people around you. It's not just about hitting the number, and you'll be surprised at what you get back. And then almost last, and you can see that this is just about last, If you want to do big things at a company, you need to hit your number. And you notice that that wasn't first because I believe if you do these other things, the number takes care of itself. And then finally, I've got this big sign in my house actually that says, "Always hustle." And I teach my kids that and I teach my team that. I think hustling is super important. So I just wanted to end with some pieces of advice for people who you know, want to do big things at their company or go big places.