On asking for help (even when you really don't want to)
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Step-by-step tactics for facing your fears and making the ask—including templates and example scripts
👋 Welcome to a 🔒 subscriber-only edition 🔒 of my weekly newsletter. Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. For more: Best of Lenny’s Newsletter | Hire your next product leader | Podcast | Lennybot | Swag If you’d like to attend (or host!) a meetup, join our paid subscriber Slack and find your local city channel. Learn more here. Left to right, by row, from top: Santa Barbara, Amsterdam, Oakland; Seoul, Lisbon, Toronto; Washington, D.C., Munich, Armenia People sometimes believe that asking for help will make them look…
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