22 July 2024
This week's additions focus on leadership, mindset, and operations, with new digests from Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth, Ryan Deiss, and Starter Story. Highlights include Paid search is the one channel every company should run. Most entrepreneurs produce fewer than three truly productive hours daily
Showing 540 digests for 22 July 2024.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Aligning career purpose with personal values and lived experience
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Identity & self-belief
8
Communication
6
A father's death from preventable disease shaped an entire career trajectory.
You can't motivate people — you can only inspire them to motivate themselves.
Designing your environment matters more than individual willpower and resilience.
Productivity & habits
YouTube
Why being new at something can make you better at it
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Productivity & habits
9
Identity & self-belief
6
Rookies outperform experts by looking outward, not inward
Only 15% of what you know today stays relevant in five years
How to ask for help in a way that activates people's mentoring gene
When and how leaders should express emotion authentically
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Communication
9
Management
8
Resilience & grit
5
Show emotion only when it serves others, not yourself
Employees are not your therapist — know where to process
Over-communicating purpose reduces fear more than policy updates
Leadership Q&A: remote engagement, sales motivation, master's degrees, and LinkedIn
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Remote teams
7
Motivation
6
Purpose and autonomy outperform incentives for disengaged teams.
A master's degree is only worth it after real-world experience.
Posting customer praise from a bad exit will hurt your profile.
Navigating mergers, difficult conversations, and coaching systems
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Communication
9
Management
8
Processes & SOPs
6
Merger promises about resources and stability almost never hold.
Direct conversations after decisions matter as much as difficult ones.
Write coaching notes as if the person could read them.
Building leadership confidence through diverse perspectives and curiosity
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
8
Identity & self-belief
7
Communication
5
Losing tangible metrics when moving to executive roles crushes early confidence
Cross-industry peer cohorts break assumptions that industry-specific groups reinforce
Asking one more question before solving rewires expert leaders' default behaviour
How to generate quick wins and build momentum with agile principles
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Processes & SOPs
9
Culture building
7
Business operating systems
5
Work-deliver cycles beat work-work-work-deliver every time
Frequent feedback stops you falling in love with the wrong deliverable
Chunk big projects into smaller increments to guarantee more success
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
How to onboard new employees effectively with a tiered approach
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Hiring & recruitment
9
Culture building
7
Processes & SOPs
6
Why onboarding is socialization, not information transfer
A two-tier structure: 90-min day one, deep dive at 45 days
Function vs. purpose: the conversation that builds lasting loyalty
Three ways to engage others: autonomy, mastery, and purpose
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Culture building
6
Telling people how to work kills ownership — ask what works for them.
Mastery beats salary: engineers work 90-hour weeks to fly their plane.
Small, visible forward progress is the single strongest engagement driver.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
From caretaker to rainmaker: creating value beyond your assignment
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Identity & self-belief
8
Communication
6
Vision & mission
5
Doing your job excellently is a ceiling, not a career.
Rainmakers grow the organisation's pie — from any seat.
A four-step framework: outcome, levers, pilot, network.
Handling defensiveness, manager boundaries, and career transitions
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
10
Relationships & family
6
Replace 'attitude' with behavior to defuse defensive direct reports
Close team friendships are worth the awkwardness — but watch for social exclusion
Resolve the relocation decision before redesigning your role around a bad employer
How to build a vivid vision for your organisation
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Vision & mission
10
Management
6
A 4–5 page present-tense document beats any mission statement
Write alone, offsite, ignoring how — let the team solve that later
Share externally to magnetise the right people and repel the wrong ones
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Consistency and identity: how Liz Anderson navigated layoff and career pivot
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
7
Case studies
6
Deciding who you are before deciding what to do unlocks unexpected paths
A missed promotion and tech layoff became fuel, not roadblocks
Small daily actions beat intensity — consistency is the only compound that matters
How women make stronger decisions: research and practical strategies
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Communication
8
Identity & self-belief
7
Goal setting
5
Women face a 3x harsher competency penalty for the same leadership mistake.
Being collaborative gets women labelled indecisive — here's how to counter it.
Confidence signals a good story, not the right answer.
How to tell a personal story that serves your audience, not your ego
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Public speaking
9
Communication
7
Copywriting
5
Every personal story needs a leadership point, not just a personal one
Strip emotion words from stories and listeners lose the meaning entirely
Challenge plus choice are the only two beats a story truly needs