Leadership: Management
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How great COOs grow people, break silos, and lead globally
Cameron Herold
September 9, 2024
Delegation
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Management
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Identity & self-belief
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- The COO's job is growing people, not doing the work
- Flipping the org chart puts leaders in a support role
- Hiring globally and leveraging AI now separate scalable companies
The behavioural habits that hold successful leaders back
Coaching for Leaders
September 2, 2024
Management
9
Identity & self-belief
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- The higher you rise, the more your problems are purely behavioural.
- Winning trivial arguments costs more than losing them ever would.
- Achievement addiction never delivers peace — happiness cannot be achieved.
How to drive impact and scale teams at hypergrowth companies
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
September 1, 2024
Management
9
Productivity & habits
7
Culture building
6
- Rise from ICPM to leading 1,000+ people by obsessing over company priorities and saying no relentlessly
- Use inquiry first, data, and willingness to challenge authority to drive decisions without formal power
- Introduce deliberate chaos, let non-critical fires burn, and prioritize people over org charts
How team collaboration shapes a culture of growth mindset
Coaching for Leaders
August 26, 2024
Culture building
9
Management
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- Growth mindset is a continuum shaped by environment, not a fixed trait
- Internal competition — even well-intentioned — triggers fixed mindset in teams
- Cultures of growth outperform on innovation, revenue, and resilience
Seth Godin on significance, agency, and the limits of industrial productivity
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
August 19, 2024
Culture building
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Management
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- AI makes efficiency-based work obsolete — only unreplicable humans survive.
- 10,000 workers wanted respect and challenge, not pay or ease.
- Significance is always inconvenient; convenience is the race to the bottom.
What COOs must do differently to lead through change
Cameron Herold
August 19, 2024
Management
9
AI strategy & adoption
6
Cash flow management
5
- Stagflation demands COOs finally master the P&L and budget ratios.
- Growing people's skills, confidence, and networks is the core COO job.
- Most COOs lack the DNA to become CEO — and shouldn't want to.
Five responsibilities that separate managers from directors
Dr. Grace Lee
August 18, 2024
Management
10
Communication
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- Missing one of five RAISE skills blocks almost every manager promotion.
- Directors shape and refine strategy — they don't just execute it.
- Insight, not information, is what earns and sustains director-level authority.
How process-oriented implementers keep visionary leaders grounded
EOS Worldwide
August 17, 2024
Management
9
Identity & self-belief
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- Process thinkers naturally anchor fast-moving visionary leaders
- Slowing conversations down prevents distraction from competing priorities
- Seek clients whose style complements yours, not mirrors it
Coach Buzz Williams on mentorship, distraction, and anticipatory leadership
The Daily Stoic
August 14, 2024
Management
9
Work-life balance
7
Identity & self-belief
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- Reactive leaders stay in tactical hell — anticipation is the real job.
- Distraction is the greatest tactic of failure, not a minor inconvenience.
- Keeping small promises to others is how you keep promises to yourself.
A day in the life of a $96M/year CEO: what the job actually looks like
Noah Kagan
August 13, 2024
Management
8
Productivity & habits
7
Processes & SOPs
5
- A CEO's job shifts to vision and hiring — not daily firefighting
- Slow mornings and saying no create space for what actually matters
- Patience is the operating principle: AppSumo took 15 years to build
Leadership as chief energizing officer: building a high-energy team culture
Cameron Herold
August 12, 2024
Culture building
10
Management
8
Communication
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- Praise twice as often as you criticize — fill the jar before you withdraw
- Starbucks CEO spent 2 hours every Friday handwriting personalised thank-you notes
- Skip-level meetings and MBWA build the trust that makes honest feedback possible
Kindness as leadership strategy: lessons from Ashley Stewart's turnaround
Coaching for Leaders
August 12, 2024
Culture building
9
Case studies
8
Management
5
- Kindness isn't soft — it broke every Workers' Comp actuarial record
- Random acts of kindness are a resignation, not a system
- Stripping professional armor unlocked a twice-bankrupt company's turnaround
How your brain's systems shape strategy, influence, and relationships at work
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
August 11, 2024
Communication
9
Management
8
Identity & self-belief
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- Low openness wires big-picture thinking directly to your brain's pain systems
- Appeal outweighs ability in relationships — miserable people get cut from the network
- Most teams use two of nine cognitive channels; unlocking purpose and gamma changes everything
Leadership: the one skill that builds a million-dollar company
Dan Martell
August 9, 2024
Management
10
Hiring & recruitment
7
Delegation
6
- Servant leadership builds trust; title and trader leaders create churn.
- Stop telling people what to do — define outcomes and coach on deviations.
- Record yourself working once; new hires onboard without consuming your time.
Using your top strengths to lead through challenges
Coaching for Leaders
August 5, 2024
Management
9
Delegation
7
- Your strengths feel easy — that's exactly why they're powerful
- One team member's strength realignment freed the whole team's capacity
- Delegation without a strengths lens silently blocks people's development