Leadership Lessons by Brian Chesky

In a recent Fortune article, Brian Chesky, CEO and Founder of Airbnb, shared his leadership lessons learned. Here are his key take aways:

• Always lunch in the cafeteria and meet with people
• Identify the best source of information (people) and go there directly     --> Saves you a lot of time.
• Send handwritten notes to employees
• Think deeply - Take time - READ!
• Sunday night e-mail sessions: emails, summing up a principle or lesson learned the past week
  
• Learn how to learn
• • Seek counsel from a wide range of sources
  • • Be proactive (Sheryl Sandberg)
    • Focus (Jonathan Ive)
    • Stay cool (Bob Iger)
    • Avoid "noise" (Waren Buffett)
    • • Avoiding noise means avoiding distraction
      • No TV, less meetings, just read and learn
    • Be visible (George Tenet)
    • Don't fuck up the culture (Peter Thiel)
• In a crisis you have to go either left or right - so stop making decisions by compromise
  
• Refill the reservoir --> Take time off, go out, enjoy life