Laszlo Bock on Building High-Performance Teams

Overview
In this Lighthouse blog post, Laszlo Bock shares his experience building high-performance teams at Google and later at his own venture. He discusses the importance of data-driven people operations, creating a culture of continuous feedback, and aligning talent strategy with business goals.

Key Takeaways

• Use data and metrics to inform hiring, performance reviews, and employee development.
• Foster a culture where feedback is frequent, specific, and actionable.
• Align people strategy with the organization's mission to drive sustainable growth.
• Invest in manager training; great managers amplify team performance.
• Prioritize psychological safety to enable innovation and risk-taking.

Who Would Benefit

• Engineering managers looking to improve team performance.
• Technical leaders seeking data-driven HR practices.
• People ops professionals in tech companies.
• Startup founders building their first engineering teams.
• Senior leaders responsible for culture and talent strategy.

Frameworks and Methodologies

• OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) for aligning goals.
• Continuous Performance Management.
• Psychological Safety framework.
• Data-Driven People Analytics.