18 September 2023
This week's additions focus on leadership, strategy, and mindset, with new digests from Cameron Herold, Rob Walling, and TK Kader. Highlights include Show up to contribute first — givers extract the most from peer groups Catch burnout early — weeks of grind-signs beat months of recovery
Showing 38 digests for 18 September 2023.
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
Finding the right seat: matching people to roles they love
EOS Worldwide
September 21, 2023
Good values fit alone doesn't mean someone will perform well
Right seat = work someone loves doing and executes well
Misplaced employees hurt both themselves and the organisation
Business operating systems
Podcast
How Jeff Bezos built Amazon through standards, speed, and invention
Founders
September 21, 2023
Business operating systems
9
Management
8
Iteration & feedback loops
6
Why eliminating internal communication beats improving it
Single-threaded leadership: one person, one project, nothing else
Working backwards from customer experience forces skills companies lack
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Why indecision is fear of losing, not fear of missing out
GaryVee
September 21, 2023
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
8
Productivity & habits
6
Indecision is fear of being proven incapable, not FOMO.
You will never know if the other path was better — ever.
Being at peace beats chasing money as a singular KPI.
Why HR should own compensation strategy, not just watch it happen
HR Party of One
September 21, 2023
Processes & SOPs
8
Culture building
6
Unit economics
5
Uninvolved HR directly causes the retention disasters it's blamed for fixing
A five-step process to audit, research, and own compensation strategy
One bad hire salary decision drove out a top performer and missed annual revenue
How chef Pierre Thiam brought fonio from West Africa to US stores
How I Built This with Guy Raz
September 21, 2023
Origin stories
10
Niche selection
6
Fonio grows with minimal water and regenerates soil — colonization nearly erased it
A custom milling machine cut waste from 50% to zero and scaled output 48x
One chef's in-store cooking demos drove fonio from one shelf to 2,000 US stores
Prospecting & outreach
YouTube
Six ways to handle "what are your rates?" on lead calls
Joanna Wiebe
September 21, 2023
Prospecting & outreach
9
Pricing psychology
8
SEO
5
Leads ask about price early because they have a real budget and fear being burned.
A hidden or public rate page pre-qualifies leads before any call happens.
Charging more buys prep time — prep time makes you a consultant, not an executor.
Long-term planning
YouTube
Strategic growth: acquisitions, AI adoption, and scaling decisions
Cameron Herold
September 20, 2023
Long-term planning
8
AI strategy & adoption
8
Hiring & recruitment
6
Acquiring competitors beats organic growth past a certain scale
Employees who refuse AI will be replaced by those who don't
Pay 80th-percentile or executives will leave — equity rarely compensates
How Hunter Hammons launches a million-dollar business every month
Starter Story
September 20, 2023
Business models
9
Case studies
7
Hiring & recruitment
5
Pair a creator's audience with your ops playbook to skip cold sales.
Fixed-price, scoped deliverables beat unlimited offers every time.
Productized services are a cash engine — Phase 2 is SaaS and products.
Community building
YouTube
How shared struggle eases anxiety for EOS integrators
EOS Worldwide
September 20, 2023
Community building
7
Resilience & grit
6
Communication
5
Shared purpose in the room dissolves integrator anxiety instantly
Live IDS sessions reveal others face the exact same problems
Camaraderie turns shared struggle into productive forward momentum
Attention is the only asset that matters for brand building
GaryVee
September 20, 2023
Social media
9
Content marketing
8
Vision & mission
5
Publishing on social media is free — most people still underuse it.
Every goal requires attention; attention has never been cheaper to earn.
Bad results come from ignoring the craft behind content, not algorithms.
8 lead generation ideas to grow your email list
Joanna Wiebe
September 20, 2023
Email marketing
9
Conversion rate optimisation
6
Eight concrete tactics to trade value for email addresses
Free trials with onboarding sequences can upsell to paid plans
Quizzes and email courses are low-effort, high-retention list builders
Four strategies for tackling the toughest challenges
Masters of Scale
September 19, 2023
Motivation
8
Case studies
7
Goal setting
5
Design methodology can unlock systemic solutions at planetary scale.
True allyship requires action and accountability, not words alone.
Small sustained contributions compound into outsized generational impact.
Closing techniques
Podcast
Listener Q&A: Mock features, failed launches, and freelancing
Startups For the Rest of Us
September 19, 2023
Closing techniques
8
Iteration & feedback loops
7
Content marketing
6
Build fake UI features to close six-figure B2B deals buyers never actually use.
A bad launch isn't fatal — a phased rollout beats one high-stakes debut.
Contracting is a practical stair-step from salary to full-time founder.
When two visionaries share a company: dividing roles with EOS
EOS Worldwide
September 19, 2023
Two visionary co-founders can't both avoid the integrator role
Naming your role lets you own weaknesses without conflict
EOS framework validates what each founder can and cannot do
When two visionaries share a company: finding the integrator role
EOS Worldwide
September 19, 2023
Management
8
Business operating systems
5
Two visionary co-founders often leave the integrator role unfilled
One partner may default to integrator habits despite a visionary profile
Honest self-awareness about weaknesses is the foundation of role clarity