Business
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