Years ago, while working at another tech startup, I experienced one of the most uncomfortable meetings of my life. A coworker was making her pitch for a new website design. Her idea was good, and yet, the discussion grew tense as various people, (including the CEO) got hung up on mundane details about the navigation. […]
There are 2 kinds of leaders in the world. On a bad day, many of us look like the former to some degree, and on great days, we are often the latter. How often we are each depends on your leadership style, and how much self awareness you have to understand how you affect others. […]
What have been your biggest challenges this year? If you’re a leader, you’ve probably faced some real doozies: maybe a team member had a major personal crisis, or you inherited a dysfunctional team, or you got promoted to a role that feels foreign to what you were doing before. Whatever your challenges, there’s probably been […]
We all want to hire the best, but we don’t always get the best to accept our offers. Sometimes we lose out on them for reasons beyond our control (“Linkedin offered them $250,000 in stock options”), but there are also times it was totally under our control (“I didn’t hear from you for 2 weeks […]
You have the chance to ask Bill Gates, the billionaire founder of Microsoft, one question. What would you ask? If you’re a young man in Australia, you ask a deeply personal question: “How have you managed to succeed in a predominantly extroverted world and how can the education system, with its increasingly extroverted ideals, harness […]
How do you deal with stress? How does it affect you as a person and a leader? It’s an interesting question that reframes much of the topics we’ve discussed on the Lighthouse blog for years. Fortunately, Stewart Alsop gave us the chance to think about it. He interviewed Lighthouse’s CEO, Jason Evanish, on this subject […]
Sports can teach us lessons that apply to life in a variety of ways. Many of the same challenges faced in competition apply to other aspects of life. It’s why from time to time we write about sports on the Lighthouse blog on leadership and management either directly or indirectly: Playing sports for 2 years […]
“Ugh. Again!?!” “Why did they do that!??” “What a terrible day.” It’s easy to let bad news or bad results bother you. Some low quality work from a team member, or a bad outcome can ruin your whole day, if you let it. But there’s a better way. A way that will motivate your team, […]
What’s the difference between a good leader vs. bad leader? What do the good leaders do differently? It’s an essential question every leader must ask themselves. Every leader faces challenges and situations every day that test their patience, skills, and mindset. There is no magical, drama-free team. What separates a good leader vs. bad leader […]
“Why did you ever choose to work there? ….Why would anyone elect to spend their workdays so entwined with death and grief? And how can you possibly get up the next morning to do it all over again?” This is a question Tammy Wright asked herself in an article in the Washington Post. Wright is […]
