The Creating High Performing Teams podcast is for managers and leaders like you who want to learn how to be the best you can be. Through interviews, case studies, and how to episodes, the Get Lighthouse team and guests will teach you what you need to know to bring out the best performance and motivation for your team.
Our goal is to be the most actionable podcast you've ever listened to. At the end of every episode, you'll find further reading and specific steps so you can start taking action and improving right away.
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The Creating High Performing Teams podcast is for managers and leaders like you who want to learn how to be the best you can be. Through interviews, case studies, and how to episodes, the Get Lighthouse team and guests will teach you what you need to know to bring out the best performance and motivation for your team.
Our goal is to be the most actionable podcast you've ever listened to. At the end of every episode, you'll find further reading and specific steps so you can start taking action and improving right away.
Jeremy Brown has an unconventional career path to CTO. While he started as an engineer, he took detours in sales, motorcycling and starting a business in Cameroon, before becoming a CTO.
In this episode, we look at how Jeremy’s career unfolded, and what he learned along the way that prepared him for success as a CTO. We also get his advice for how you can level up and thrive at each step in your career from IC to Manager to Manager of Managers to Executive.
Show Notes:
Learn about Conway’s Law here: https://medium.com/@williammeller/the-conways-law-7e09514741f8
Conway's Law and the "reverse" or "inverse" Conway - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_lawThe Inverse Conway - https://ctocraft.com/blog/how-can-the-inverse-conway-manoeuvre-help-drive-organisational-change/
Jeremy also highly recommends the book, Team Topologies if you’re looking at doing a reorg of your teams.
On Open Space Technology: (Official Website and User’s Guide)For this meeting to work the following conditions need to be present.A good intro via Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology
Keys:A matter that is of very high importance to the group and a real possibility of conflict
Diversity in terms of people and positions involved
And some Youtube Walkthroughs: an Introduction, and How to facilitate one
Learn why you should let that high performing jerk go and the rest of your team will perform better with the book: The No A***** Rule by Robert Sutton
Learn about the concept of Pioneers, Settlers, and Town Planners here. It helps you understand how to lead at different scales for startups.
Key actions for you to take today from the interview:
Repeat yourself more than you think you need to, in a variety of ways.Repeating yourself as a leader is key to instilling key ideas and concepts into your team. Learn more about the Power of Repetition here
Use your 1 on 1s to support your teamGet Status Updates out of them, and instead give feedback, ask good questions and more. Learn how Jeremy used Lighthouse to help him here.
Be sure to praise your team when they do the right thingsLearn to thank your team and give praise in a variety of ways to motivate your team you can learn about here.
Where to find and follow Jeremy Brown:
Read his occasional posts on his blog - https://world.hey.com/jeremybrown
Find him on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tenfourty/
Follow him on Twitter - https://twitter.com/JeremyBrownTech
Creating High Performing Teams
The Creating High Performing Teams podcast is for managers and leaders like you who want to learn how to be the best you can be. Through interviews, case studies, and how to episodes, the Get Lighthouse team and guests will teach you what you need to know to bring out the best performance and motivation for your team.
Our goal is to be the most actionable podcast you've ever listened to. At the end of every episode, you'll find further reading and specific steps so you can start taking action and improving right away.
