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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 • 8 episodes
Lighthouse Leadership
Latest Episodes
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
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Get Team Alignment like Amazon
In this episode of the Lighthouse Leadership Podcast, Evan Hickok unpacks one of the most overlooked but essential elements of team success: alignment. He shows how clarity around what needs to be done, why it ma...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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15:14

Seeing is Believing: The Role of Transparency in Knowledge Work
In this episode of the Lighthouse Leadership Podcast, Evan Hickok explores why making progress visible is essential for keeping teams engaged and motivated—especially in knowledge work where results aren’t always tangible. Drawing on n...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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7:48

The Collapse of Sonos: How Leadership Drift and Ignoring Risk Ruined a Great Brand
In this episode of Lighthouse Leadership, Evan Hickok breaks down the slow, public unraveling of Sonos—a brand once synonymous with seamless, multi-room audio. What began as a visionary pursuit of whole-home wireless music degraded int...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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38:49
