Leadership: Management

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Management

Podcast

Bending the universe to your advantage: building influence and agency in tech

Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth April 7, 2024


Management 8
Identity & self-belief 6
AI strategy & adoption 5
  • Know your next role and make it easy for your manager to get you there by solving business problems.
  • Set one-click-faster pace by replacing artificial meeting cadences with real decision timelines.
  • The universe is bendable—design careers around talented people, not around fixed organizational structures.

Management

YouTube

How to handle an unexpected senior leader exit

HR Party of One April 4, 2024


Management 9
Processes & SOPs 7
Delegation 6
  • No succession plan turns one departure into an organisation-wide crisis.
  • Knowledge walks out the door — access problems and rumours follow immediately.
  • An unplanned exit is also the fastest path to upward mobility for others.

Management

YouTube

Growing your people: the 12 core leadership skills every manager needs

Cameron Herold April 1, 2024


Management 9
Processes & SOPs 5
  • Most managers have never been trained on the skills they use daily.
  • Two ladders — skills and confidence — must grow together as the company scales.
  • Tie leadership certification to pay raises to close the training gap.

Hiring & recruitment

YouTube

How to hire, leverage, and replace a COO at the right growth stage

Cameron Herold March 30, 2024


Hiring & recruitment 9
Management 8
Outsourcing & delegation 6
  • Wrong COO costs 15x salary; right one returns 4x their cost
  • Seven distinct COO types — match the type to the growth stage
  • Every senior hire has a shelf life: two doubles is the limit

Hiring & recruitment

YouTube

Leadership and hiring lessons from Snowflake's CFO after three IPOs

EO March 28, 2024


Hiring & recruitment 9
Management 8
Delegation 7
  • Micromanaging someone means you're about to fire them
  • Quarterly bonuses force honest feedback that annual ones never do
  • Title inflation is the most common and damaging startup hiring mistake

Culture building

YouTube

How CEOs can energise teams through gratitude, presence, and praise

Cameron Herold March 25, 2024


Culture building 9
Management 8
Resilience & grit 5
  • Praise twice for every criticism or new project you assign.
  • Your state before the meeting determines the energy inside it.
  • Every business area lead's most important team is the whole company.

Culture building

Podcast

David Ogilvy's eight habits for building a creative company culture

Founders March 24, 2024


Culture building 9
Management 5
  • Divine discontent: permanent mild dissatisfaction drives all creative excellence.
  • Fear, politeness, and bureaucracy are the three habits that kill great work.
  • Dogged persistence — not genius — separates good work from great work.

Management

YouTube

Why your organization needs a levels document

HR Party of One March 14, 2024


Management 9
Processes & SOPs 6
  • 95% of employers have pay problems — levels docs fix the root cause
  • Skill, scope, and experience set pay; removes manager discretion entirely
  • HR leads, but managers build it — shared ownership, shared accountability

Management

Podcast

Why most product managers are project managers in disguise

Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth March 10, 2024


Management 9
Customer discovery 8
Business operating systems 6
  • Most PM roles are theater: output delivery dressed up as product work.
  • Empowered teams own outcomes, not roadmaps — the gap is enormous.
  • AI will wipe out backlog admin; viability skills will matter more.

Management

Podcast

Landing on the moon: Intuitive Machines' Odysseus mission

Masters of Scale March 7, 2024


Management 9
Case studies 8
Resilience & grit 7
  • First private moon landing succeeded despite 11 in-flight failures.
  • Laser rangefinder fix reprogrammed in 45 minutes instead of a month.
  • Fixed-price, lean model is redefining the cislunar economy.

Management

YouTube

Seven skills every effective COO must have

Cameron Herold March 6, 2024


Management 9
Delegation 6
  • The right COO depends entirely on who the CEO is.
  • People skills — conflict, coaching, collaboration — are non-negotiable.
  • CEO must invest in the relationship like a marriage, not a role.

Management

YouTube

How to run multiple companies without stealing from each

Cameron Herold March 3, 2024


Management 9
Processes & SOPs 7
Cash flow management 5
  • Each company needs its own team and budget before you step back.
  • Two or three visible metrics per function; the rest stay hidden.
  • Leaders who speak last get better ideas from their teams.

Communication

Podcast

How Meta's CTO thinks about leadership, communication, and building at scale

Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth March 3, 2024


Communication 9
Management 8
Resilience & grit 6
  • Communication is the job — if it didn't land, that's on you
  • Ask your manager for help more; they want you to succeed
  • Curiosity, not defensiveness, is the antidote to identity threat

Management

YouTube

Leadership lessons from a CEO with 30 years in enterprise sales

EO February 29, 2024


Management 9
Communication 7
  • Why applying one management style across all functions fails
  • Set context and alignment once — then let great people run
  • Praise publicly, give hard feedback fast and in private

Culture building

YouTube

Employee obsession as the real driver of business growth

Cameron Herold February 26, 2024


Culture building 9
Management 8
Delegation 6
  • Employee happiness outranks customers and revenue as your top priority
  • Flip the org chart: CEO at bottom, frontline staff at top
  • CEO's real title is chief energising officer, not executive officer

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