Get Lighthouse

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

A recent Tiktok has gone viral where someone talks about how much they hate their job and how little energy they have after their workday ends. To get this sent to your inbox every week, along with our latest long form essays on this blog, you can sign up here. You have to fire [low performers] or let them quit.

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Get Lighthouse

JANUARY 6, 2023

"If you care about someone, and you got a little love in your heart, there ain't nothing you can't get through together.". When at my team's suggestion I finally watched season 1, I knew we had to write it about it for the Lighthouse blog. Getting great ideas from your team by truly listening to them.

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Asana

JULY 25, 2022

Most EMs complete the same engineering onboarding project as new engineers, getting familiar with our technical stack and development process. Learn who to ask for help about what Meet with your cross-functional partners: PM, PMM, BizDev Join a manager circle and meet other managers within your area and department. Community Building.

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Get Lighthouse

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

I try to be flexible to everyone on my team, but sometimes I worry I'm a pushover.". Be Consistent on: Harvard Business School professor and author Clayton Christensen has a principle he lives by that he wrote about in his book, How Will You Measure Your Life? It's who you hire, who you fire, and who you promote.

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Chris LoCutro

MAY 30, 2023

“The key to influencing leadership is by example” Click To Tweet You may be asking yourself, but, what does that get me? In the end, what we’re talking about on today’s podcast is good for your leader, it’s good for the organization, and best of all, it’s good for you and your future in the organization. But enough about us.

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Know Your Team

JANUARY 8, 2020

Without further ado, I would like to tell you about our December AMA guest, Tim Burgess , co-founder of Shield GEO. He had to get a “proper” job so he spent an intense 18 months doing sales for an IT consulting company. Within months he’d misread the CEO and gotten fired. I’m getting challenged by some of our staff on this.

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Know Your Team

APRIL 4, 2020

As leaders, a lack of motivation at work is something we’re usually worried that our team will experience. But during these troubling times, what about when you feel that lack of motivation at work as a manager, yourself? Read a few pages from a novel you’ve been wanting to get into. To your spouse. To your health.

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Know Your Team

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

In fact, Gallup shared how “traditional performance reviews and approaches to feedback are often so bad that they actually make performance worse about one-third of the time.” How did we get here? How did we get here? Other companies use them as a tool used for legal protection and to justify future firings.

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Alison Green

AUGUST 17, 2022

There were a ton of questions I didn’t get to (I received 750 total and only answered 78 here) so please feel free to submit them to me for regular answers if you’d like to: [link]. I wrote earlier about waiting for a job offer. For the record, I tend not to worry about it too much but would curious if you have any advice.

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Get Lighthouse

AUGUST 30, 2022

For her, starting things on the right foot when managing up is all about making the most of your time together. For example, I can tell you about how I went camping. And the next thing we know, we’re almost getting mauled by a bear.”. To fix this: Start your story right before you get eaten by the bear.

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Vantage Circle

JANUARY 31, 2023

Don’t worry. In this blog, we will dive deep into the business core values of 10 well-known companies and understand how they have transformed their values into reality. And by commit, we mean that you’re willing to hire and fire based on them. Rather it’s about being the authentic self.

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Zenefits

OCTOBER 15, 2022

“Quiet firing” and “ quiet quitting ” are making headlines as the latest workplace “buzz” terms. The new thing about this phenomenon is simply that people are finally giving a name to the practices of quietly quitting a job or quietly eliminating a position.” And why the secrecy?

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Chris LoCutro

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

It’s not about working harder; it’s about breaking through those unseen limits that tether you to the same spot. It’s not just about breaking through; it’s about soaring beyond. Today we're talking about how to really lead effectively, and what the benefits are when you do it.

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Chris LoCutro

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Ever wonder about the extra perks of great leadership? It’s not just about hitting targets. Smart Delegation: It’s not just offloading tasks; it’s about empowering and valuing your team. It’s about creating a team that’s harmonious, confident, empowered, open, and continuously growing.

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Walk Me

DECEMBER 6, 2023

We’ll start by thinking about the term “best practice.” Think about it for a moment. And that’s why this article won’t give you a list of “best practices” that you can quickly implement for sure-fire success. Unfortunately, this is a topic where Google results are sometimes unhelpful.

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Chris LoCutro

MARCH 5, 2024

Today, we’re getting real about that quiet battle being combated by many leaders. And help get it going and growing. And today we're talking about a topic that especially if you're a CEO, and owner, maybe even a president, maybe shoot may have been just a leader that you're probably going to resonate with.

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Alison Green

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This post, company wants references from “coworkers you didn’t get along with” , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. One of those categories is “coworker(s) that you didn’t get along with.” I’m worried that I might have wasted a lot of time with this whole process. I’m off today.

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Chris LoCutro

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In this week’s podcast episode, we’re diving into “The Training Trap,” a place where leaders feel stuck, communication and morale are poor, and team members don’t get what they need. You aren’t constantly putting out fires and answering a billion questions that chip away at your time and focus. But what happens when you kill the trap?!

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Alison Green

JULY 7, 2022

I ultimately ended up changing my number, not because I was worried about a job search, but because I was tired of getting 3am calls from guys wanting friendly business. I saw another blog post about paying it forward and I volunteer on a Discord server giving job feedback to people on their resumes and the like. (I

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Alison Green

JUNE 21, 2022

When the three of us returned to the office, he pulled me aside and said, “By the way, I’m sorry about what happened when you first started. In terms of your question about whether I could work with him comfortably, I’ve mostly put the incident out of mind and moved on successfully in my job.

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Brian Balfour

JUNE 20, 2017

Preface by Brian Balfour: I rarely accept guest posts on this blog, but this opportunity was too good to pass up. My second response, let's write about this. I've spoken/written about the importance of onboarding a lot before. Learn About Growth, One Email Per Post. My immediate response, holy f*ing YES!!!! Thank you!

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Vantage Circle

JUNE 6, 2021

Read our blog on: The Guide To Conflict Resolution In The Workplace. It's safe to assume that everyone who reads this blog has gotten an email that has left them speechless. If yes, you know how important it is to get your email salutation correctly. If not, think about avoiding using emojis altogether. Ken Schlechter.

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Peter Winick

DECEMBER 7, 2023

An interview with William Vanderbloemen about building a successful search business by understanding the needs of his audience. William shares his journey into thought leadership, starting with his blog on how to build, run, and maintain a great team. With so many contributors to the content pool, it would be easy to get off track.

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Michael McKinney

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The titles listed below—published in 2022—reflect a need to get realigned with solid leadership practices and thinking. Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ). The Crux : How Leaders Become Strategists by Richard P. How can you design a successful, sustainable innovation process?—his

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