27 November 2023
This week's additions focus on leadership, strategy, and mindset, with new digests from Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth, Cameron Herold, and Rob Walling. Highlights include Most PMs skip vision entirely — here's the full framework. Visibility and public speaking can outweigh profit sharing as retention.
Showing 50 digests for 27 November 2023.
Leading with Authenticity: Culture, COO Role, and Scaling People
Cameron Herold
November 29, 2023
Culture building
9
Hiring & recruitment
8
Delegation
6
Genuine personal care for employees drives harder work than any incentive.
The COO is the brakes to the CEO's gas — hire one who handles what you can't.
Stop motivating people; hire self-motivated ones and reverse-engineer their goals.
First principles applied to the five leadership abilities
EOS Worldwide
November 29, 2023
Management
8
Identity & self-belief
5
Strip every decision to its smallest component part.
Delegate, automate, and systemize everything that remains.
Structure teams around core values and role fit.
Visionary and integrator: separating ideation from execution
EOS Worldwide
November 29, 2023
Delegation
8
Business operating systems
6
Processes & SOPs
5
Visionaries create chaos when they drift into execution details
The ideation/execution boundary must be explicit and team-wide
Teams can request visionary input within strict, defined guidelines
Outsourcing & delegation
YouTube
How to justify the cost of hiring or training an Integrator
EOS Worldwide
November 29, 2023
Outsourcing & delegation
9
Unit economics
7
Business operating systems
5
Assign dollar values to unsolved issues before judging the price tag.
The total impact almost always exceeds what founders expect.
A four-step exercise turns cost anxiety into a clear ROI decision.
Founder interviews
YouTube
No one is stealing your success: lessons on mindset, competition, and candor
GaryVee
November 29, 2023
Founder interviews
10
Identity & self-belief
7
Communication
6
Other people's wins are not your losses — scarcity mindset is the trap.
Removing competition from childhood created a generation of dangerous indifference.
Kind candor: moving from passive-aggressive slights to direct feedback transforms teams.
Content marketing
YouTube
How to create engaging content that ranks on Google
Semrush
November 28, 2023
Content over 2,000 words ranks better — but longer can hurt retention
Real customer feedback beats any SEO tool for testing engagement
Infographics and video can earn major backlinks written content cannot
Keeping a remote team motivated and engaged across time zones
Startups For the Rest of Us
November 28, 2023
Culture building
10
Management
8
Communication
7
Remote culture must be designed deliberately — it never forms on its own.
Monthly reflection surveys sent directly to founders catch issues managers miss.
In-person retreats charge a 'trust battery' that powers months of online collaboration.
Business operating systems
YouTube
When a visionary fills multiple roles: clarity beats confusion
EOS Worldwide
November 28, 2023
Business operating systems
9
Management
6
Splitting roles splits attention — neither gets done well
Integrators must ask: which hat are you wearing right now?
Role clarity triggers the Visionary to finally delegate extra seats
How a visionary and integrator built a high-trust leadership partnership
EOS Worldwide
November 28, 2023
Management
9
Business operating systems
8
Case studies
6
Three failed integrators later: what the right one asked first
Visionaries must vacate every seat — or they undermine their own integrator
Direct communication isn't a soft skill; it's the whole partnership
MVP & prototyping
YouTube
Five differentiators between online courses that sell and those that fail
Sunny Lenarduzzi
November 28, 2023
MVP & prototyping
9
Business models
6
Content marketing
5
Qualifying buyers — not selling to everyone — is the business model.
Pre-sell a live prototype before recording a single lesson.
Results replace marketing; proof is the only growth strategy you need.
Content marketing
YouTube
Growing a podcast and diversifying as a franchisee
GaryVee
November 28, 2023
Content marketing
8
Business models
7
LinkedIn ads targeting industry employees are underused by B2B podcasts
Personal A-to-Z contact outreach beats mass promotion for early growth
Multi-unit franchisees have the operational edge to launch their own concept
How Visa became the world's most profitable payment network
Acquired
November 27, 2023
Business models
10
Origin stories
7
Visa owns no cards, bears no risk, yet earns 50% net margins.
One self-taught outsider convinced 200 competing banks to share a network.
A five-sided network effect built over 50 years is nearly impossible to displace.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Using music and neuroscience to rewire leadership patterns
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
November 27, 2023
Identity & self-belief
9
Management
6
Childhood neural pathways drive adult leadership behaviour — not conscious choice.
Music activates the whole brain, building new behavioural pathways faster.
One interrupter song plus a 10-song practice playlist rewires emotional defaults.
Content marketing
YouTube
What top YouTubers taught us about YouTube marketing
Neil Patel
November 27, 2023
Content marketing
9
Growth hacking
7
Two mediocre videos after a hit can tank your whole channel.
Broad content gets views; niche content gets enterprise revenue.
Diversify marketing channels, never businesses.
Why your business feels hard: your team lacks basic management skills
Cameron Herold
November 27, 2023
Management
9
Hiring & recruitment
6
95% of managers have never been trained to interview
Untrained teams default to hiring as the fix for every problem
Email, meetings, delegation — fixable with training most skip