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Lighthouse Leadership Weekly #104: Disagreeable Givers?, Having Standards vs. Being Nice, and more...
What’s your favorite idiom? One of mine is, “sunlight is the best disinfectant.” It’s amazing what you can learn with a little transparency. Yet, it’s not just about rooting out corruption, revealing core truths, or unearthing lies. It’s also a very effective tool in leadership. I’m reminded of an early visit to the offices of […]
What’s your favorite idiom? One of mine is, “sunlight is the best disinfectant.”
It’s amazing what you can learn with a little transparency. Yet, it’s not just about rooting out corruption, revealing core truths, or unearthing lies. It’s also a very effective tool in leadership.
I’m reminded of an early visit to the offices of then-fledgling startup, Twilio. I was the guest of a friend working there and he shared some of their cultural habits and ways of doing things.
One that stood out was that in their Monday all-hands meeting, the CEO would show the entire company their bank account balance.
The beauty of this is that there were no doubts about how the company was doing, how many months of runway they had left, or if a recent fundraise was actually finalized.
It was also incredibly motivating for the team.
As it turns out, knowing where the company stood kept the team humble and hungry. They knew their efforts mattered, and that they couldn’t just coast because they were “VC backed.”
As leaders, it can be tempting to hide things from your team. And sometimes you have to (like when planning layoffs), but in many other cases, erring on the side of transparency is the better approach.
This week, consider what you should try sharing with your team to be more transparent, and ask yourself how you expect they’d handle the information. Then, when you share it, see how it impacts them. Were you right or wrong?
This kind of experiment is exactly how you grow as a leader in what starts out as small ways (sharing one thing) and grows into big ones (sharing a lot more consistently).
With that in mind, let’s dive into this week’s topics…
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