Leadership: Management
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Leading Enneagram Type 3: practical do's and don'ts for managers
StoryBrand With Donald Miller
November 26, 2018
Management
9
Hiring & recruitment
6
- Type 3s need a scoreboard — clear goals beat vague missions.
- Unchecked Threes cut corners and run over colleagues to win.
- Hire for character first; bad character cancels every other strength.
How to lead an Enneagram Type 8: dos and don'ts
StoryBrand With Donald Miller
November 26, 2018
Management
9
Communication
7
- Eights hide deep loyalty and heart behind a tough exterior
- Show strength and decisiveness or an Eight will fill the vacuum
- Eights fight for underdogs — bullying is a counter-phobic Six trait
Leading Enneagram Type 9: practical dos and don'ts
StoryBrand With Donald Miller
November 26, 2018
Management
8
Communication
6
- Nines merge with group opinion unless you actively press for their view
- Unhealthy nines lose all sense of self — more atmosphere than person
- Their best roles: conflict negotiation and bridging irreconcilable differences
Building a team that stays: what great leaders actually do
Bill Gallagher
October 10, 2018
Culture building
9
Hiring & recruitment
7
Management
5
- Stop running the company — your job is finding people smarter than you.
- Ask employees their life dream before telling them yours.
- Retention follows when people believe the company serves their mission too.
Broken link building: a real campaign with conversion rates revealed
Ahrefs
September 26, 2018
Management
9
Resilience & grit
6
- 52 emails, 15 links — a 28.8% conversion rate from one campaign
- Two small tweaks (screenshot + follow-up) more than doubled response rates
- Anchor text on dead pages tells you exactly what your replacement must cover
How CEOs become the bottleneck and how to break through it
Bill Gallagher
September 26, 2018
Management
9
Business operating systems
7
Identity & self-belief
5
- The founder is always the bottleneck — your mindset caps company growth.
- Scaling before stage three (16+ employees) actively damages your business.
- Early loyalists become liabilities; separating friendship from role is essential.
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
How to find, evaluate, and close engineering hires at a startup
Y Combinator
September 26, 2018
Hiring & recruitment
9
Processes & SOPs
6
Management
5
- Interviews are as noisy as random movie reviews — structure fixes this.
- Personal networks beat all other sourcing channels, especially early on.
- Speed and transparency in offers close candidates big companies can't.
What a skip-level meeting is and how to run one
Cameron Herold
January 15, 2018
- Senior leaders bypass a direct report to hear from their team
- The meeting exists to gather insights, never to make decisions
- Engage neutrally — ask questions, don't debate or direct
A simple system for setting and actually achieving annual goals
Noah Kagan
January 11, 2018
Management
9
Identity & self-belief
5
- Goals you'd do anyway don't count — only set ones that stretch you
- A year-in-review using photos reveals far more than you remember
- Print goals and put them everywhere visible — out of sight means undone
Seven lesser-known laws of leadership
Masters of Scale
August 26, 2017
Management
9
Delegation
8
Work-life balance
5
- Think big while executing today—future billions and daily user impact
- Delegate ruthlessly when you scale; your job multiplies through others
- Build teams of cognitive opposites who complement your weaknesses
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
Six lessons for rebuilding an eight-figure business from scratch
Noah Kagan
July 18, 2017
Hiring & recruitment
9
Management
8
Processes & SOPs
5
- Hire band members, not rock stars — mavericks lose to teams
- Board members who disagree with you are your most valuable asset
- Real autonomy outperforms micromanagement — set the goal, then step back
How Google built a culture of managed innovation chaos
Masters of Scale
June 7, 2017
Culture building
9
Management
7
Case studies
5
- Why tolerating insubordination is the secret to Google's success
- 20% time's hidden power: a check on management overreach
- Instincts are right 95% of the time; specific ideas only 25%
Hiring & recruitment
Podcast
Leading through scale: lessons from Sheryl Sandberg at Google and Facebook
Masters of Scale
May 31, 2017
Hiring & recruitment
9
Culture building
9
Management
8
- Why your team's silence means you're already the bottleneck
- Hiring for roles that never existed before requires abandoning prior experience
- Mission is the one plan leaders must never break
Building a happier workforce through clear expectations and trust
Bill Gallagher
April 19, 2017
Culture building
9
Management
7
Communication
6
- Unclear expectations are the hidden root of most workplace unhappiness
- Drive-by management erodes trust faster than any perk can rebuild it
- Honest feedback only flows when leaders explicitly invite it
How to develop and lead with your strengths using CliftonStrengths
Bill Gallagher
March 29, 2017
Management
8
Identity & self-belief
7
- Being well-rounded makes you average, not excellent.
- Your top five themes explain 60–70% of your behaviour.
- Well-rounded teams outperform teams built in the leader's image.