Lighthouse Leadership
Welcome to the Lighthouse Leadership Podcast, where host Evan Hickok unpacks the simple yet powerful frameworks that help managers become exceptional leaders and guide their teams to success. Drawing from real-world experiences, hard-learned lessons, and proven strategies, this podcast explores the hidden factors that cause team underperformance — misalignment, broken processes, psychological danger, and lack of cohesion — and offers actionable solutions to fix them.
Podcasting since 2025 • 10 episodes
Lighthouse Leadership
Latest Episodes
Most Companies Expand Wrong — Here’s the Process That Actually Works
Most people think global expansion is strategy… but the truth is companies don’t get destroyed by bad strategy — they get destroyed by invisible operational decisions they didn’t know they were making. The only reason Tesla didn’t get burned is...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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52:10
The Keyboard Derby: How Transparency Built the iPhone Keyboard
Most people imagine the iPhone keyboard was born from pure genius — a single spark. But in 2005 Apple had no keyboard that worked. If the team couldn’t solve typing on glass, the iPhone would be canceled. Steve Jobs paused nearly every...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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19:28
The Power of Purpose: Connecting Personal and Shared “Why”
Purpose shows up in the grandest and simplest of moments—whether facing the end of life with a loved one or answering the question, “So, what do you do?” In this episode, I share a deeply personal story of loss, explore how identity an...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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14:50
The Turning Point: How Bill Gates Learned Teams Outperform Individuals
Bill Gates once believed in the myth of the lone genius—that brilliance alone could change the world. But a sharp critique from a NASA engineer, a high-stakes project at TRW, and the collaborative creation of Altair BASIC showed him otherwise. ...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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21:00