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Episode 61: Lena Reinhard (CircleCI)
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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:
Special thanks to Mel Stanley for our theme music <3
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Content provided by Rachel Perkins and Kendall Miller, Rachel Perkins, and Kendall Miller. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Rachel Perkins and Kendall Miller, Rachel Perkins, and Kendall Miller or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://player.fm/legal.
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:
Special thanks to Mel Stanley for our theme music <3
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