Leadership: Management

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Communication

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Vulnerability as a leadership tool: how honesty drives teams

Bill Gallagher January 3, 2023


Communication 9
Management 6
  • Admitting you have no plan can inspire more loyalty than false confidence.
  • Vulnerability without a commitment to fight just looks like collapse.
  • Sharing a real crisis with your team unlocks collective problem-solving.

Management

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Danny Meyer on laying off 2,000 people while keeping culture intact

Masters of Scale December 22, 2022


Management 9
Communication 7
Case studies 6
  • Protecting jobs long-term sometimes means eliminating them short-term
  • How a one-size-fits-all layoff policy broke down for one pregnant employee
  • Restaurants employ more people than airlines — and have almost no margin buffer

Management

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How to build a vivid vision and scale a company from startup to 100 people

Cameron Herold December 16, 2022


Management 9
Vision & mission 8
Hiring & recruitment 6
  • A four-page future snapshot attracts the right people before you hire anyone.
  • Untrained managers — not bad strategy — are why companies stall at 30 people.
  • The CEO job changes completely at every stage from 1 to 100 employees.

Culture building

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Building trust as the foundation of happy, motivated teams

Startups For the Rest of Us December 13, 2022


Culture building 9
Management 7
  • Why tracking hours destroys the teams you most want to keep
  • Sharing bad financial news builds loyalty — hiding it destroys it
  • Bad performers can't hide in a results-based culture; they can in offices

Management

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How to plan 12 months in one leadership off-site day

Sunny Lenarduzzi December 13, 2022


Management 9
Vision & mission 7
Processes & SOPs 6
  • One in-person day beats months of Zoom planning calls
  • Cascade a single North Star down to daily actions
  • Right people, right seats: the real lever for growth

Management

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How to coach managers to give effective feedback

HR Party of One December 8, 2022


Management 9
Delegation 6
  • Most managers are promoted for performance, not coaching skill.
  • Avoiding feedback creates compounding problems — like technical debt.
  • A handbook, reading list, and role-play practice build lasting feedback habits.

Hiring & recruitment

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How to hire and leverage the right COO for your company

Cameron Herold December 5, 2022


Hiring & recruitment 10
Management 7
Delegation 6
  • The wrong COO costs 15x their salary — $3–4M per year.
  • Hire someone who has done the job, not just knows how.
  • Trust must be total before day one — not built on the job.

Management

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How to introduce goal-setting at your organization

HR Party of One December 1, 2022


Management 9
Goal setting 6
  • HR is uniquely positioned to lead org-wide goal-setting strategy.
  • SMART goals turn vague intentions into measurable, time-bound outcomes.
  • Seven-step framework cascades goals from HR through every team.

Management

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Business leadership in crisis: Twitter, Disney, FTX, and what comes next

Masters of Scale November 30, 2022


Management 9
Long-term planning 7
AI strategy & adoption 5
  • Why Musk's Twitter layoffs are the perfect model of what not to do
  • FTX lacked a board — the governance failure investors should have prevented
  • How to keep sustainability commitments alive when budgets collapse

Management

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How to coach product managers, improve storytelling, and build community

Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth November 27, 2022


Management 9
Public speaking 7
Community building 5
  • Five concrete ingredients turn any manager into a great PM coach.
  • Great storytellers spend weeks crafting a narrative — not hours.
  • Product communities are cheaper than training and raise retention.

Hiring & recruitment

Podcast

How Yo-Yo Ma built the Silk Road Ensemble from scratch

Masters of Scale November 21, 2022


Hiring & recruitment 9
Management 8
Case study 6
  • Mission-driven recruiting beats job descriptions — passion is the filter.
  • Language barriers dissolved within days through shared musical work.
  • Too much control kills innovation; live performance demands productive chaos.

Management

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How to become a top 1% product manager, with Ian McAllister

Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth November 20, 2022


Management 9
Iteration & feedback loops 7
Long-term planning 6
  • Why prioritization alone creates 5x more impact than raw talent
  • Trust is a PM's real currency — built by calling shots and hitting them
  • Working backwards means starting with the problem, not the solution

Management

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Why female leadership traits are a competitive advantage for everyone

Masters of Scale November 10, 2022


Management 8
Business models 5
  • Diverse businesses are measurably more profitable — not an ethics question.
  • Empathy and vulnerability are competitive weapons, not soft skills.
  • Female founders get 2% of VC dollars despite outperforming in crises.

Management

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Firing people, managing fear, and innovating inside large companies

Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth November 10, 2022


Management 9
Productivity & habits 7
Business models 5
  • Fear reliably gives bad advice — the right move is almost always the opposite.
  • Firing humanely means one-on-ones, emotional space, and active outplacement.
  • Fewer people in an org consistently produces better absolute output.

Hiring & recruitment

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How to hire, be hired, and recruit as a product leader

Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth November 3, 2022


Hiring & recruitment 10
Management 5
  • Big-name CPOs often aren't right for early-stage companies
  • Build candidate relationships months before you actually need to hire
  • Recruiters who treat candidates as commodities lose the best people

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