Elizabeth Stone

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Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO) · 19 Jul 2026 podcast

So I could give a couple examples of things to get comfortable with.

which is there are certainly days where I see decisions happening and I think, hmm, I would make a different decision.

Like, is that really going to be the best thing?

But my job, especially in the Netflix culture, is not to step in in every one of those cases and overrule or veto or question someone.

Especially if it's not material, it's not going to burn the place down.

Let people make that decision and learn from it and ask for those reflections afterwards of like, how did it go?

Maybe I was wrong.

Maybe the decision was a great one.

But that it's related to the risk taking and the like help people learn how to feel comfortable making their own decisions, especially when they're not all going to be the right decisions and they're going to learn something tough from it.

I felt that myself from my boss and my peers saying, this is your decision.

You know, I can provide input.

I can help you brainstorm.

It's yours in the end.

And it just doesn't come naturally.

When the stakes are high, when I feel responsible for what the org's doing to let people lean into risk can be uncomfortable.

And I think that also means in cases where things are not going well, as another example, to not assume that process is going to fix it.

So if something I've learned over the past few years that when planning is difficult, I've never heard someone say like, oh, we figured out the perfect way to plan or the perfect way to go through feedback and leveling and compensation.

But every time we saw that and we added more process, we spent more time without getting better outcomes.

And so it's another unnatural thing that I think everyone's inclination when things are hard and complicated is you think you're simplifying the problem by putting a lot of constraints around it.

But it actually goes against the like, is there a more creative way?

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