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.
Leadership lessons from NASA: trust, teamwork, and speaking up
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Culture building
9
Management
8
Resilience & grit
5
Individual technical excellence can mask catastrophic team communication failures.
Apollo 12 was saved by one engineer's off-script curiosity about a simulator anomaly.
A 48-hour weekend meeting rescued the entire ISS programme from cancellation.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Building confidence through advice giving and growth mindset
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Productivity & habits
6
Asking struggling people for advice boosts their confidence more than giving it
Tough goals with emergency reserves outperform both easy and rigid hard goals
Your social group shapes your confidence more than any individual technique
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Having better conversations about wealth and family money
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Identity & self-belief
7
Resilience & grit
6
Helplessness is the default state — mastery must be deliberately built.
Shielding kids from difficulty with money stunts capability, not just character.
Psychologically healthy wealthy individuals are among the most powerful change agents available.
How a teenager built a mission-driven lemonade brand from age four
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Origin stories
10
Resilience & grit
6
Hiring & recruitment
5
Turned a bee sting at age four into 1,800 stores across 40 states.
Bravery in sales came from product belief, not fearlessness.
Parents led and followed at different stages — and knew which was which.
How to help underdogs thrive in organizations
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Why diversity programmes miss the individual — and what fills the gap
Accepting bias without endorsing it is a strategic advantage
Your uniqueness is a distinct advantage, not a limitation
How to lead a remote team: principles that have not changed in 25 years
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Communication
8
Delegation
5
Your team perceives you as less present than you think you are.
Checking in and checking up are different — set expectations upfront.
Informal early warnings vanish remotely; problems surface only when they blow up.
How to build a LinkedIn profile that gets you found and hired
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Social media
8
SEO
7
Branding
5
Your company name in the headline wastes searchable keyword space
Complete profiles are 40x more likely to receive opportunities
Personalised connection requests open conversations; generic ones don't
Conflict resolution
YouTube
How to help a know-it-all change their behaviour
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Conflict resolution
9
Management
7
Pause, name their genius, then show how their style buries it
Reformed difficult people earn more goodwill than lifelong nice ones
Coaching only works when the person is threatened, not genuinely cruel
Three anchor stories every leader needs to influence effectively
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Public speaking
9
Communication
7
Pitching investors
6
The best stories don't win — the best-told stories do
Three specific story types cover every high-stakes professional moment
Authenticity is rehearsed, not spontaneous — preparation is the method
Transitioning from peer to leader: a practical playbook for new managers
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Processes & SOPs
7
Motivation
6
Why managing former peers is an emotional challenge most orgs ignore
30% sales lift from focusing on just two wildly important goals
A four-episode curriculum that sequences leadership preparation in order
Leadership as an act of hospitality: lessons from Eleven Madison Park
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Culture building
9
Management
8
Delegation
5
Hospitality is the only competitive advantage that cannot be copied.
Investing in your team first is strategy, not sentiment.
Criticism is investment — praise without it leaves people without growth.
A practical system for going paperless: capture, process, edit, share
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Processes & SOPs
9
Automation & tools
7
Start going paperless today — the backlog doesn't need solving first.
A consistent file naming convention is the one habit that scales.
Redaction vs. a black box: one hides data, one just covers it.
How to get real value from 360-degree feedback
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Communication
6
Confidentiality isn't optional — it's what makes raters tell the truth.
Look for themes across raters, never fixate on a single comment.
Your first 360 is a baseline, not a verdict — treat it as a gift.
Tying leadership development to business results
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Processes & SOPs
6
60–90% of training is never applied — $120B wasted annually in the US
Leadership is a means to an end; design programs for specific business outcomes
Baby boomer retirement wave creates an 18-year talent shortage — develop from within
Leadership Q&A: Motivation, communication challenges, difficult bosses, and stagnant organisations
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
8
Communication
7
Downtime is your best window to fix broken systems and processes.
Physical constraints can prevent micromanagement — reframe them as strengths.
Career years not spent growing are wasted; build your community outside work.