In this episode, Kendall, rachel, and Lena talk about:
* Starting out in finance, the arts, classic cars journalism, and more...
* Uses (appropriate or not) for creativity in leadership
* Realizing that a potential lifelong career in banking would be...boring
* First startup experience as a web copywriter
* First formal leadership experience as a bootstrapped startup CEO
* Ebola outbreak response...no biggie, right?!
* Becoming more intentional as a leader, learning about leadership frameworks
* Growing out of the 'relationship' as a cofounder, wanting different things
* Big, International, Complicated :)
* Becoming a regular old Engineering Manager, and...immediately becoming a VP of Engineering
* Twitter as a source of leadership learning, despite the trashfire
* Managing in all directions, 360 degree leadership
* Acknowledging that leadership successes depend on the quality of the team
* Hiring tenets, "value add" vs "culture fit"
* Finding the right role at CircleCI
* Authority and how to swing it, understanding power distance
* Maintaining a list of hobbies to take up as a hobby
* A strong desire for "really good fries"
* A recommendation for poetry books by Omar Sakr, more books recommended below
* Working on dialing back the tendency to take charge in non-work life (such a familiar struggle :))
More books Lena recommends:
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50887097-why-fish-don-t-exist
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43131602-into-the-planet
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39731655-in-extremis
You can find Lena on the internet at:
- http://twitter.com/lrnrd
- https://lenareinhard.com
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/lenareinhard/
Special thanks to Mel Stanley for our theme music <3