Leadership: Management
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Bending the universe to your advantage: building influence and agency in tech
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
April 7, 2024
Management
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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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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