21 August 2023
This week's additions focus on strategy, leadership, and mindset, with new digests from Cameron Herold, Founders, and TK Kader. Highlights include ADHD peripheral awareness is a structural edge in business A WWII POW's story as a tool for entrepreneur stress
Showing 34 digests for 21 August 2023.
Scaling leadership teams: people, culture, and operational leverage
Cameron Herold
August 23, 2023
Management
9
Culture building
8
Outsourcing & delegation
6
Mid-level managers default to hiring when their real problem is skill gaps.
A vivid vision gives every employee the same mental movie as the founder.
Pay base salary well — annual bonuses demotivate for 50 weeks of the year.
How a college dropout made $2.3M freelance copywriting by 21
Starter Story
August 23, 2023
Copywriting
9
Prospecting & outreach
7
Business models
6
Recurring retainers beat one-off gigs — the mistake most freelancers make
35 million businesses, fewer than 5,000 copywriters — the market is undersupplied
AI needs skilled copywriters to prompt it; the job isn't going away
Aligning your team around a shared business vision using EOS
EOS Worldwide
August 23, 2023
Vision & mission
9
Business operating systems
6
Communication
5
Plateau and exhaustion often signal a team lacking shared direction
The VTO: a two-page roadmap answering eight core company questions
State-of-the-company addresses keep the whole organisation vision-aligned
Business operating systems
YouTube
Bringing discipline and accountability with EOS Traction tools
EOS Worldwide
August 23, 2023
Business operating systems
8
Processes & SOPs
6
90-day Rocks replace chaotic priorities with focused, achievable goals
Level 10 meetings and Meeting Pulse drive real team accountability
Align Rock planning with long-term targets to close the execution gap
Business operating systems
YouTube
Solving recurring business issues with EOS's IDS tool
EOS Worldwide
August 23, 2023
Business operating systems
10
Management
5
Why the same problems keep recurring: you're fixing symptoms, not causes
IDS tool gets teams to root cause inside a structured meeting agenda
Psychological safety is a prerequisite — silence kills permanent solutions
Business operating systems
YouTube
Systemising core processes to regain business control
EOS Worldwide
August 23, 2023
Business operating systems
10
Document the 20% of activities that drive 80% of results
Inconsistent employees signal undocumented or unfollowed processes
The Followed By All checklist turns documentation into real consistency
Business operating systems
YouTube
Building the right people structure for your business goals
EOS Worldwide
August 23, 2023
Business operating systems
9
Hiring & recruitment
6
Structure must come before evaluating who fills the seats
People issues are the most common frustration for business leaders
The People Analyzer turns gut feel into objective team assessment
Founder interviews
YouTube
Balancing ambition with contentment: GaryVee's Sydney Q&A
GaryVee
August 23, 2023
Founder interviews
9
Resilience & grit
8
Content marketing
6
Contentment plus ambition beats wealth without peace every time
AI personalities will disrupt influencers like influencers disrupted Hollywood
Selfless creators outlast selfish ones when talent alone plateaus
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Philosophy, comedy, and the examined life with Christina Pazsitzky
The Daily Stoic
August 23, 2023
Identity & self-belief
9
Founder interviews
7
Resilience & grit
6
Early-career ego is fuel — then the same ego destroys what you built
Procrastination assumes tomorrow exists; the Stoics say it doesn't
Stoics laughed, told jokes, and one literally died laughing at his own
Five value proposition formulas for writing stronger headlines
Joanna Wiebe
August 23, 2023
Five plug-and-play formulas turn your value prop into a headline
Transformation formula: turn what they have into what they want
Only highlight a differentiator if your prospect actually cares about it
Why top VC firms secretly love YC but won't admit it
Y Combinator
August 23, 2023
Fundraising & VC
9
Pitching investors
6
Top VCs invest in hundreds of YC companies while publicly disparaging it.
YC filters 20,000 applicants into ~200 fundable, further-along companies for VCs.
Investors advising you against YC are usually the ones not offering to invest.
Closing techniques
Podcast
Storytelling as a sales tool for bootstrap founders
Startups For the Rest of Us
August 22, 2023
Closing techniques
10
Prospecting & outreach
8
Copywriting
6
Buyers decide on outcomes, not features — stories make them feel it
Three levels of buyer pain: the unknown unsaid problem wins deals
Don't hire salespeople until you've closed 10 deals yourself
How to build and use a performance improvement plan
HR Party of One
August 22, 2023
Management
9
Compliance & regulation
7
When an employee fails, their manager has also failed.
PIPs must identify root causes, not just list performance gaps.
A signed PIP is a formal final warning before termination.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
How to achieve high impact at work without burning out
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
August 21, 2023
Productivity & habits
9
Work-life balance
7
Communication
6
One question before starting work cuts frustration without changing your job
US workplaces lose $1.2 trillion yearly to invisible miscommunications
Replace 'no' with a question — and others will de-prioritise for you
11 strategies to grow brand awareness creatively
Neil Patel
August 21, 2023
Branding
9
Content marketing
8
Personal brand alone won't scale — operations matter more long-term
AI homogenises content; first-hand experience is the only differentiator
Embed influencers into your business instead of paying for one-off posts