{"id":1699,"date":"2017-10-24T01:54:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T01:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knowyourteam.com\/blog\/?p=1699"},"modified":"2019-02-01T19:08:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T19:08:19","slug":"newsletter-issue-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canopy.is\/blog\/2017\/10\/24\/newsletter-issue-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Issue 8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Every few weeks we send a newsletter to our subscribers with the new content we have written, new episodes of our podcast, and other interesting links we\u2019ve found on the internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/knowyourteam.com\/blog\/newsletter\">Subscribe to our Newsletter here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"a-chat-with-patrick-collison\">From The Heartbeat Podcast: Interview with Amanda Lannert, CEO of Jellyvision<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>As the CEO of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jellyvision.com\/\">Jellyvision<\/a>, a 400-person software company,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/amandalannert\">Amanda Lannert<\/a>&nbsp;has won just about every \u201cbest CEO\u201d award in Chicago, and is someone I\u2019ve admired for years. In this 12 minute interview, Amanda admits the one lesson she wishes she learned earlier as a leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9Jo_NYEjl7c\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.knowyourcompany.com\/watch-the-heartbeat-interview-%EF%B8%8Fwith-amanda-lannert-ceo-of-jellyvision-with-transcript-58c901ccd91d\">Transcript of the interview here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"latest-leadership-reads\">Latest leadership reads<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mckinsey.com\/business-functions\/organization\/our-insights\/safe-enough-to-try-an-interview-with-zappos-ceo-tony-hsieh\">Safe enough to try: An interview with Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh<\/a><\/strong><br>\u201cWe shouldn\u2019t have to be dependent on a benevolent manager or CEO to allow employees to move around within the organization, because that\u2019s a single point of failure.\u201dPublished in McKinsey Quarterly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.freecodecamp.org\/we-fired-our-top-talent-best-decision-we-ever-made-4c0a99728fde\">We fired our top talent. Best decision we ever made.<\/a><\/strong><br>\u201cYour team\u2019s strength is not a function of the talent of individual members. It\u2019s a function of their collaboration, tenacity, and mutual respect.\u201dWritten by Jonathan Sol\u00f3rzano-Hamilton<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/the-year-of-the-looking-glass\/managing-more-experienced-people-9893f9903649\">Managing more experienced people<\/a><\/strong><br>\u201cYou don\u2019t have to do everything yourself. 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