Leadership: Management
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Applying neuroscience to leadership: AGES, SCARF, and the threat brain
Bill Gallagher
September 23, 2020
Communication
9
Management
8
Resilience & grit
6
- Leaders routinely trigger threat responses in people without realising it.
- AGES (Attention, Generation, Emotion, Spacing) explains how brains actually retain learning.
- SCARF maps five social triggers that flip people into threat or reward mode.
Shackleton's Antarctic survival and what it teaches about leadership
Founders
September 13, 2020
Management
9
Resilience & grit
7
Case studies
6
- Shackleton feared demoralization more than ice, cold, or starvation.
- Every escape route failed — survival came from refusing to stop trying.
- He crossed South Georgia Island in 36 hours with a rope and an axe.
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
When to hire a COO and how to make the partnership work
Cameron Herold
August 31, 2020
Hiring & recruitment
9
Management
8
Outsourcing & delegation
6
- Self-reliance becomes a ceiling — and the right COO breaks it.
- Hire for trust first: hand them your banking login on day one.
- Before a COO, hire an EA — or you already are one.
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
How to find and work with the right co-founder
Noah Kagan
August 17, 2020
Hiring & recruitment
9
Management
6
Equity & cap tables
5
- Start alone first — momentum makes co-founder recruitment far easier
- Shared vision is non-negotiable; disagreements on tactics are fine
- Equity is permanent — treat co-founder selection like a marriage, not a date
Nine lies about work: why human uniqueness is a feature, not a bug
Bill Gallagher
July 29, 2020
Management
9
Culture building
7
- Fear of failure causes leaders to suppress the individuality that drives performance.
- Cascaded goals don't change behaviour — only self-set goals unlock real contribution.
- Build on people's strengths; excellence is where we are most productively unfinished.
Employee engagement, wellbeing, and manager coaching during crises
Bill Gallagher
July 22, 2020
Management
9
Communication
8
Retention & loyalty
6
- Engagement stays stable in crises — but predicts whether companies recover above average
- Weekly manager check-ins measurably cut employee worry, stress, and loneliness
- Employees now choose employers based on growth opportunities, not perks or pay
Leading a historically Black college through pandemic and racial upheaval
Masters of Scale
July 18, 2020
Management
9
Cash flow management
7
Processes & SOPs
5
- Spelman cut 70% of room-and-board revenue while fixed costs held.
- HBCUs out-graduate peers on STEM PhDs with far fewer resources.
- A Spelman student was tased — racial violence arrived mid-pandemic.
How Atlassian redesigned meetings and culture for distributed work
How I Work
July 8, 2020
Culture building
9
Management
7
Processes & SOPs
6
- Make caring for each other an explicit meeting agenda item.
- One dial-in rule from Trello creates a true level playing field.
- Productivity metrics built for factories fail knowledge workers.
Building employee connection into leadership decision-making
Cameron Herold
July 7, 2020
Culture building
7
Management
6
- A head of people makes empathy a structural role, not a personality trait.
- Skip-level meetings give CEOs unfiltered access to frontline teams.
- Eliminating offices forces leaders into daily proximity with their people.
Darren Walker on racial justice, philanthropy, and the new playbook for 2020
Masters of Scale
July 2, 2020
Management
8
Founder interviews
7
Fundraising & VC
6
- Why Ford Foundation borrowed $1 billion to give it away
- Black entrepreneurs lack the friends-and-family capital white founders take for granted
- Deniability on racism ended the week George Floyd was killed
Tom Peters on why people are the only thing that matters in business
Bill Gallagher
June 24, 2020
Management
10
Delegation
7
Identity & self-belief
6
- Excellence is how you behave in the next five minutes, not a destination.
- MBWA works because genuine curiosity about people is intrinsically rewarding.
- One bad hire can destroy culture — give everyone veto power in interviews.
How to restart company culture and remove the wrong people
Cameron Herold
May 26, 2020
Culture building
9
Management
7
- Fire all cultural misfits on the same day — cut deep, cut once.
- Survivor guilt is real but fades within two to four weeks.
- Presence beats policy: sit with the team, ask how they feel.
Leading through crisis: LifeWay Foods CEO Julie Smolyansky on gut instinct and pandemic response
Masters of Scale
May 21, 2020
Management
9
Supply chain
7
Resilience & grit
6
- Stockpiled seven weeks of inventory before U.S. panic buying hit
- Personal refugee history shaped faster crisis instincts than any algorithm
- Why boards should put more women in leadership roles right now
How Angela Ahrendts united Apple's global retail team
Masters of Scale
May 19, 2020
Culture building
9
Communication
7
Management
6
- Weekly unedited iPhone videos built trust with 70,000 retail employees
- Reframing stores as a community OS unlocked a new leadership mandate
- Giving managers local ownership turned employees into mission advocates
Crisis leadership: why people matter most in a downturn
Bill Gallagher
May 17, 2020
Management
9
Culture building
7
Communication
6
- Your crisis behavior is leadership judgment day — act accordingly
- MBWA still works remotely: call people, ask about their lives
- Tiny courtesies and genuine listening outlast any clever strategy