Radical Candor: how to manage people honestly and with care

Business Book Club January 14, 2026

• Why caring too much can make you a worse manager
• Letting go of control builds trust faster than doing it yourself
• Silence in one-on-ones unlocks honesty no question alone can

How to spot the identity blind spots holding you back as a leader

Coaching for Leaders January 12, 2026

• Identity mismatches — not skill gaps — silently derail leaders at role transitions.
• Small consistent behaviour shifts move identity faster than insight or willpower alone.
• Auditing your calendar exposes what your identity is already filtering out.

Seven work habits that signal an employee mindset to leadership

Dr. Grace Lee January 10, 2026

• Busyness signals reliability, not leadership readiness — they're not the same.
• Escalating problems without a recommendation just escalates the thinking.
• Perfectionism is fear disguised; senior leaders want quality decisions under pressure.

Three problems COOs face and how to solve them

Cameron Herold January 7, 2026

• CEOs who break their own rules destroy system adoption company-wide.
• Cap delegation by time, not quality — 60 minutes is enough.
• Teach CEOs skip-level meetings to stop meddling without conflict.

Stop Solving Your Team's Problems: Five Questions That Work

Coaching for Leaders January 5, 2026

• Compassionate leaders chronically over-rescue teams, creating burnout and disempowerment over time.
• Five targeted questions shift intellectual ownership back to employees without abandoning compassion.
• Awkward silences when asking these questions signal entrenched dependency, not a flawed approach.

Molly Graham's leadership frameworks for scaling, change, and growth

Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth January 4, 2026

• Why giving away your best work is the path to career growth
• 80% of team problems are structural — not people problems
• Never promise stability: broken promises demoralize faster than anything

From manager to director: why your current thinking will hold you back

Dr. Grace Lee January 3, 2026

• Hard work at director level signals you're still executing, not leveraging.
• Your potential is capped by capacitance — raise it by changing your environment.
• Directors diagnose root causes; managers manage symptoms — that gap is malpractice.

How to fire someone with empathy and without debate

Cameron Herold December 30, 2025

• Only two valid reasons to fire: culture fit or ROI on role.
• A fixed script stops the conversation becoming a debate.
• Fire at end of day — there is no good week to wait for.

Contrarian leadership truths from Rippling's COO-turned-CPO

Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth December 28, 2025

• Comfort at work is always a mistake — intensity is non-negotiable.
• Withholding feedback is selfish; escalations from customers are gifts.
• "Never quit" is VC propaganda — reset when product-market fit isn't obvious.

Five values decision-makers use to assess leadership readiness

Dr. Grace Lee December 27, 2025

• Your role has an expiry date — are you thinking beyond it?
• Perception controls how you allocate resources and kills promotability.
• Start building team leverage now, before you have direct reports.

Fire from strength, not relief: managing people out well

Cameron Herold December 24, 2025

• Relief when someone quits means you waited too long.
• Managers typically survive only two doublings of revenue before the role outgrows them.
• Let the team interview and pick their new boss to eliminate resistance.

How to Lead Like the Top 1%

Dan Martell December 23, 2025

Why untrained managers create a death zone for growing companies

Cameron Herold December 19, 2025

• Managers promoted without training are the real growth killer.
• Strategic thinking only reliably arrives with outside hires at 100 people.
• 300-person mark is where culture holds or fractures for good.

Five leadership lessons for navigating disruption in 2026

Masters of Scale December 16, 2025

• Weekly planning beats quarterly roadmaps in the AI era.
• Mission clarity and collective bravery outperform compliance under pressure.
• Sesame Street lost HBO, gained Netflix, and reached 330 million households.

Fanatical resolution: how to close every issue cleanly

EOS Worldwide December 16, 2025

• Silence after a decision isn't agreement — check for tidy bows
• Your company likely has 30 issues everyone thinks are resolved but aren't
• Naming the worst-case scenario dissolves the fear blocking hard decisions