Andy Raskin

The power of strategic narrative | Andy Raskin

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Opening
Andy Raskin (00:00:00): The way I learned how to pitch in business school, and I think the way most people did is what I call the arrogant doctor. So you have a problem, a pain, I have a solution, a treatment, and I'm going to tell you why it's better than all the other treatments. And the structure that I read about in these movies was different. Every movie starts with some kind of shift in the world, and I call this shift the shift from the old game to a new game....

The opener starts with biography before advice. That order makes the guest legible as a person before the listener extracts tactics.

Low-ego framing
title: "The power of strategic narrative | Andy Raskin" date: "2023-05-28" type: "podcast" guest: "Andy Raskin" channel: "Lenny's...

Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.

Accept praise cleanly
it, didn't work." But many more have emailed me, "Hey, I tried it, it did work. Thank you." And so yeah, just try to lay out that structure and try it mean even when I work with teams, I adapt what people...

Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.

Low-ego framing
doing this for 10 years, I'd have a very snappy definition of it there, and I don't know if I'm really happy with ... like I've ever found one that totally gets at it yet. The one thing I say is it's this...

Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.

Accept praise cleanly
Lenny (01:02:17): Amazing. Andy, thank you again for being here. Andy Raskin (01:02:20): Thanks so much for having me, Lenny. This is really fun. Lenny...

Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.

Ending
Andy Raskin (01:01:35): So I mentioned LinkedIn as a way to connect with me. That's fine. My website is AndyRaskin.com. I also have a podcast where I talk with CEOs, so if you're interested in hearing more details about actual use of this, it's called The Bigger Narrative. My mom introduces every episode. I sent her the interviews in advance. I call her and interview about what she thinks people will get out of it, and that conversation becomes the intro to the podcast episode. And what was the last question?...

The ending stays curious after the formal conversation is almost done.