Eric Nehrlich

Executive and Leadership Coach. See to learn about my coaching or to learn about my journey as an unrepentant generalist.

[Eric Nehrlich @generalist]

I'm excited to announce my new book, You Have A Choice: Beyond Hard Work to Meaningful Impact, is now available on Amazon at https://t.co/oLJFG0LxHW

This book is designed for people who are stuck because working harder isn't working to get them what they want. Check it out!

[Eric Nehrlich @generalist]

Discovered @davidbessis 's book Mathematica: A Secret World of Intuition and Curiosity via the quoted thread. I love his advocacy for our mental plasticity so we can train our intuition to "transform audacity into competence". More praise in my review at https://t.co/Yfz5mg2r3X

[David Bessis @davidbessis]

Why you don't understand math — and what you can do about it. ⤵️

[Eric Nehrlich @generalist]

I am excited to join Maven to share what I learned about being an effective executive from working with top Google execs as the Search Ads Chief of Staff for six years, and from five years of executive coaching.

My class starts Sept 27 - learn more at https://t.co/q7v7lBWxZO

[Gagan Biyani 🏛 @gaganbiyani]

“You don’t act like an executive… you act like an employee.”

Nobody ever says this, but they should. Breaking through to the most senior roles requires more than just being great at your job.

In the first stage of your career, you’re learning mostly hard skills: advanced analytics, presentation building, UX and UI design, developing larger features with more architectural complexity, or writing bigger and better PRDs. You can objectively learn a set of skills, prove competency through work output, and get promoted fast.

Soon, learning new “hard skills” doesn’t move the needle. A shift happens once you become a middle manager and to grow you need to learn softer skills such as executive presence, storytelling, negotiation, and how to have an ownership mindset.

To learn these skills, you need both psychological and functional learning.

Psychologically: you have to build confidence, manage your ego, create emotional regulation, and change your mindset from employee to owner.

Functionally: you have to learn to present to larger groups, deliver feedback to your team, and negotiate with peers.

Over the last 15 years as a founder/CEO, I’ve made a concerted effort to grow myself both psychologically and functionally. I’ve had extensive executive coaching, attended countless management training programs, joined CEO support groups, watched hundreds of hours of YouTube videos and taken online courses.

I’m not alone: most executives I know have invested heavily in their own self-development. It takes a number of different learning strategies to grow.

Today, we’re launching “The Exec Track” on Maven to add some amazing options for your career and personal growth.

Explore the collection of courses to become a stronger leader: https://t.co/yPYSXgQEAe

Some highlights from the new collection:

- Executive Communication & Influence for Senior ICs and Managers with @wes_kao
- Forging Titans: Achieve Outlier Performance as a Leader with @drgurner
- Mastering Networking & Relationship-Building in Tech with @WhitnieLow
Scale Yourself: Cultivate Calm & Avoid Burnout at Work with @jonnym1ller
- Build Your Personal Brand to Catalyze Your Career with @AlisaCohn

[Eric Nehrlich @generalist]

@tferriss @hughhowey Loved the conversation at the end about religion as an adaptive mechanism. As somebody who grew up in a fundamentalist Christian town, I've since realized that showing is better than telling - the most convincing argument for atheism is living my life ethically as a role model.

[Kawal Gandhi @geeztweets]

Finished reading "You have a choice," authored by @generalist , a friend and former colleague at Google, who reshaped his life after facing high intense work pressure and burnout. This book is aimed at those wishing to realign their lives with their core values and discover a purposeful approach to success. It outlines methods to:
- Formulate a vision for your ideal life.
- Tackle feelings of being overwhelmed and find solutions.
- Strengthen your impact on those around you.
- Explore new paths for professional advancement and personal growth.
- Identify what truly motivates you, leading to a more deliberate and satisfying life.
Packed with actionable exercises and motivational stories from Eric's own journey and his experience in coaching leaders and executives, this book serves as a roadmap for making choices that lead not just to hard work, but to a life of meaning and purpose.
https://t.co/47vM4x0JV3

[Eric Nehrlich @generalist]

I am a big fan of what @lolitataub is doing to democratize and share expertise to a broader community rather than depending on already having the right connections. As part of that, I'm excited to join her Experts Series to speak about leadership and alignment!

[Lolita Taub @lolitataub]

🗓️ Join me on our @ganasvc Experts Series talks.

10/3 | Secure Funding & Find the Right Investor for Your Fintech Startup w/@eldavis8 @anthemis @femaleinnovatorslab

11/7 | Maximize Leadership Potential through Alignment w/@generalist, Exec Coach

RSVP
https://t.co/DtEach69Zv

[Eric Nehrlich @generalist]

Too Many Trees Newsletter: What's Tim Urban's problem? https://t.co/HBgGe2feDm

[Eric Nehrlich @generalist]

Too Many Trees Newsletter: A couple requests https://t.co/FXXQMTgEvI

[Eric Nehrlich @generalist]

In Terrence Real's book, Us: Getting Past You And Me To Build A More Loving Relationship, I loved his idea of recognizing our individual egoistic "Adaptive Child" parts and moving past their survival instincts to create a sense of "Us" as "Wise Adult"s.

https://t.co/B7qD0hopvV

[Eric Nehrlich @generalist]

Too Many Trees Newsletter: Where does the time go? https://t.co/4LbaqAGp19

[Eric Nehrlich @generalist]

Too Many Trees Newsletter: Pause to Recover https://t.co/77vwJC7BbM

[Eric Nehrlich @generalist]

New post on Practicing Celebration, and the power of positive feedback to change both one's own behavior and the behavior of others.

As habit researchers have found, celebration is how we rewire the brain to let go of old habits and build new ones.

https://t.co/qJsEWwHFFd

[Eric Nehrlich @generalist]

Too Many Trees Newsletter: Choose Your Game https://t.co/mDHw8PaZkz

[Eric Nehrlich @generalist]

@harryh Yeah I'm actually working on writing a book now, and that's one of the principles. Nothing will happen if you read the book, only if you put in the hard work to implement them in your life.

[Eric Nehrlich @generalist]

I don't identify with this at all. Nope, not even a little bit. Hey, don't look at all those books on my shelf!!

[Harry Heymann 🥑 @harryh]

Of course that's your contention. You're a first year engineering manager. You just finished some human centric leadership guru, Rands prob'ly.

[Eric Nehrlich @generalist]

@harryh I agree. I will often recommend ideas from those books, but the execution of them is hard. I often tell my clients that simple does not mean easy.

[Eric Nehrlich @generalist]

Too Many Trees Newsletter: Setting an intention for 2023 https://t.co/VKkbtl2Xhq

[Eric Nehrlich @generalist]

@emilmertzel Yeah, it was remarkably practical to consider the levers of power first rather than hope for good things to happen based on the justice of one's cause

[Eric Nehrlich @generalist]

Too Many Trees Newsletter: DEI Deconstructed https://t.co/WFBbAaXymS

[Eric Nehrlich @generalist]

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