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From The Heartbeat Podcast: Interview with Amanda Lannert, CEO of Jellyvision
As the CEO of Jellyvision, a 400-person software company, Amanda Lannert has won just about every âbest CEOâ award in Chicago, and is someone Iâve admired for years. In this 12 minute interview, Amanda admits the one lesson she wishes she learned earlier as a leader.
Transcript of the interview here
Latest leadership reads
Safe enough to try: An interview with Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh
âWe shouldnât have to be dependent on a benevolent manager or CEO to allow employees to move around within the organization, because thatâs a single point of failure.âPublished in McKinsey Quarterly
We fired our top talent. Best decision we ever made.
âYour teamâs strength is not a function of the talent of individual members. Itâs a function of their collaboration, tenacity, and mutual respect.âWritten by Jonathan SolĂłrzano-Hamilton
Managing more experienced people
âYou donât have to do everything yourself. You just have to make sure everything gets done.âWritten by Julie Zhou
7 Tricky Work Situations, and How to Respond to Them
âYou know the moment: a mood-veering, thought-steering, pressure-packed interaction with a colleague, boss, or client where the right thing to say is stuck in a verbal traffic jam between your brain and your mouth.âWritten by Alicia Bassuk, Harvard Business Review
How to Become a Powerful FollowerâŚand a Good Leader
âGreat followers â[channel] ambition into the company, not the self.ââWritten by Augusto Giacoman, strategy + business
Favorite leadership reads
Why Motivating Others Starts with Using the Right Language
âThe leaderâs job then is to first make visible to the entire group what everyone thinks to be reality.âWritten by David Marquet, 99U
Scale-up Leadership Lessons Iâve Learned Over 9 Years as HubSpotâs CEO
âCEO = Chief Explanation Officer.âWritten by Brian Halligan
Defining Leadership Through Failure
âEssentially, the best leadership is not a conglomerate of prescribed attributes, but instead is defined by the avoidance of certain behaviors.âWritten by Haley Lee, Haley Lockwood, Julian Baker, Fu Fei, and Kyle Saleeby, NYTimes in Education
The Secrets To Building A Constructive Feedback Culture
âMany managers chicken out and provide only cursory feedback, avoiding the backlash negativity can bring. But this can be just as destructive in the long-term.âWritten by Mark Lukens, Fast Company
Just for fun
TED Talk: My road trip through the whitest towns in America
A hilarious, earnest talk, where Rich Benjamin shares what he learned as a black man intentionally living in the whitest towns in America.