This week's additions focus on leadership, mindset, and founder stories, with new digests from Noah Kagan and Masters of Scale. Highlights include Most businesses aren't slow — founders just lack measurements to know Why tolerating insubordination is the secret to Google's success

Long-term planning

YouTube

Five reasons your business feels slow and how to fix it

Noah Kagan June 9, 2017

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Long-term planning 7

Goal setting 6

Hiring & recruitment 5

• Most businesses aren't slow — founders just lack measurements to know
• Stopping tactics that worked is the fastest way to kill growth
• Weak team members set the ceiling for the whole company

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Culture building

Podcast

How Google built a culture of managed innovation chaos

Masters of Scale June 7, 2017

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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%

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Productivity & habits

YouTube

How to reach inbox zero and stop email controlling your day

Noah Kagan June 7, 2017

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Productivity & habits 9

Deep work & focus 7

• 90% of emails need no response and can be ignored safely
• Batching email into one block beats checking it all day
• Filters and site blockers eliminate inbox distraction at the source

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