20 November 2023
This week's additions focus on strategy, leadership, and mindset, with new digests from Cameron Herold, GaryVee, and TK Kader. Highlights include Most COOs hit a ceiling after two company doubles LinkedIn organic reach is as underpriced as Facebook was in 2013
Showing 26 digests for 20 November 2023.
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
How to build and retain a COO as your company scales
Cameron Herold
November 26, 2023
Hiring & recruitment
8
Management
7
Scaling infrastructure
5
Most COOs hit a ceiling after two company doubles
A COO must be strong where the CEO is weak
Visible founder confidence keeps a COO from freezing under pressure
Content marketing
YouTube
Three things every business must focus on to avoid being left behind
GaryVee
November 26, 2023
Content marketing
8
Culture building
7
AI strategy & adoption
7
LinkedIn organic reach is as underpriced as Facebook was in 2013
Delaying tech investment to protect P&L makes the hole deeper
Fear-based management leaves employees at 60% capacity
How to choose the right SaaS sales model: free trial, freemium or demo
TK Kader
November 26, 2023
B2B sales
9
Business models
7
Pricing strategy
5
Your homepage button defines your entire go-to-market strategy.
Freemium free users create more support burden than paying enterprise clients.
Below $20K ARR, a sales team's unit economics rarely work out.
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
How to build a team from startup to £1m profit
KeyPersonOfInfluence
November 26, 2023
Hiring & recruitment
9
Long-term planning
7
Processes & SOPs
5
Four military team sizes map directly to business growth stages
Going past 12 people traps you in a costly no-man's land
A 35-person team structured around five C-suite roles targets seven-figure profit
Founder interviews
Podcast
Billion dollar failures and successes: lessons from working at Pandora, Quibi, Snap, and Apple
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
November 26, 2023
Founder interviews
9
Business models
7
Identity & self-belief
5
Business success is a math formula of investment returns, not product brilliance alone
Most talented builders should skip founding and join teams solving real problems instead
Broken business equations cannot be fixed through iteration no matter how good your execution
Two business trends helping companies move faster and spend smarter
Neil Patel
November 25, 2023
Bootstrapping
8
Hiring & recruitment
6
Long-term planning
5
Staggered time-zone shifts run a single project 24 hours straight
Downturns are the best time to acquire assets at rational prices
Global hiring cuts labour costs without sacrificing output speed
Founder interviews
YouTube
How a blue-collar businessman built a $650M empire
Noah Kagan
November 25, 2023
Founder interviews
9
Resilience & grit
7
Hiring & recruitment
5
Blue-collar work is AI-proof, off-shore-proof, and Amazon-proof
A business that lost $5.5M turned profitable after 11 years of not quitting
No weekends worked in 30 years — 70-hour weeks signal you're doing it wrong
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Balancing gut instinct and rational thinking for better decisions
GaryVee
November 25, 2023
Identity & self-belief
9
Productivity & habits
6
Intuition is a muscle — practice it or lose it.
Self-esteem is the prerequisite to trusting your gut.
Blaming others and unhappiness are directly correlated.
Prospecting & outreach
YouTube
Four strategies to get 10 new clients in 30 days
Dan Martell
November 24, 2023
Prospecting & outreach
10
Closing techniques
6
A two-option DM script that closes deals without sales calls
A nine-word email that fills workshops by withholding details
Referral requests that work because they ask who clients care about
Putting family first as a core team value
EOS Worldwide
November 24, 2023
Culture building
9
Work-life balance
7
A mentor's rule: always put family first, no exceptions.
Never missing kids' events kept regret out of her career.
Leaders must explicitly give teams permission to choose family.
Content marketing
YouTube
Social media attention, LinkedIn opportunity, and building authentic personal brands
GaryVee
November 24, 2023
Content marketing
9
AI tools & automation
6
Identity & self-belief
6
A first-ever LinkedIn post can reach 800+ strangers for free.
AI flooding content supply means emotional resonance wins, not volume.
Personal brand is worth exploring but is not a business requirement.
How to define and track action items in business meetings
Layla at ProcessDriven
November 24, 2023
Processes & SOPs
8
Communication
6
Action items are just tasks — who, what, and when.
Vague verbs like 'discuss' or 'think about' guarantee nothing gets done.
Add 'next steps' to every agenda so capture becomes automatic.
Spend Marketing Budget Slowly and Profitably, Not Fast
Neil Patel
November 23, 2023
Growth hacking
9
Unit economics
7
Profitable spend beats rapid growth; stop losing dollars to gain them.
Slow, methodical scaling outperforms big budget jumps every time.
Cut what isn't working — discipline is back, and that's good.
Long-term planning
YouTube
What I would do differently if starting a business today
Silicon Valley Girl
November 23, 2023
Long-term planning
8
Motivation
6
Outsourcing & delegation
6
Passion for the problem predicts persistence — trends don't.
Define your ideal lifestyle before you decide how much to scale.
Delegate from day one so the business can run without you.
Productivity & habits
YouTube
A bad first draft beats waiting for a perfect one
EOS Worldwide
November 23, 2023
Productivity & habits
7
Processes & SOPs
6
Iteration & feedback loops
5
Starting a B+ draft outweighs weeks of upfront refinement
Scorecards only improve once you're actually running them
Iteration reveals what matters — perfection before launch doesn't