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.
How to use humor to engage people in business communication
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Communication
9
Copywriting
8
Deep work & focus
5
Humor isn't optional — it's the primary lever for attention and action
Anyone can get funnier by building a 'funny file' of real personal stories
The rule of three underlies all great comedy, copywriting, and memory
Productivity & habits
YouTube
How to learn faster using ultralearning principles
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Productivity & habits
8
Processes & SOPs
5
Most learning happens during practice, not content consumption
Environmental constraints beat willpower for forcing real skill acquisition
Setting a harder challenge than required creates downstream performance gains
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
Hiring the formerly incarcerated: a business case and call to action
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Hiring & recruitment
9
Case studies
6
82% of managers rate formerly incarcerated workers equal or better than peers
Reentry is harder than prison — the system blocks jobs, not crime
One internal advocate asking HR the right question can open the door
How to influence executives: briefing, data story, and communication strategy
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Communication
9
Closing techniques
8
Public speaking
6
Executives interrupt because they already see 80% of your proposal.
Tie every recommendation to money, market, or executive exposure metrics.
Send a read-ahead doc so meeting time goes to decisions, not presentations.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Five indicators it may be time to move on in your career
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
6
Dissatisfaction lasting more than a quarter is a real signal, not noise.
Window dressing your career is not the same as solving problems.
Gut-level energy depletion often knows before your logic does.
Conflict resolution
YouTube
Holding people accountable and navigating workplace challenges without authority
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Conflict resolution
9
Management
8
Resilience & grit
5
Appeal to shared goals, not hierarchy, to move stakeholders without authority
Affirm narcissists genuinely and privately — public battles always backfire
Best managers invest most in top performers, not underperformers
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Developing self-awareness as the foundation of emotional intelligence
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
The gap between self-perception and others' views reveals your blind spots.
Naming a strong emotion mid-hijack literally shifts control back to the prefrontal cortex.
Star leaders are distinguished almost entirely by EI competencies, not IQ.
How executives and board chairs build shared leadership
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Delegation
7
Vision & mission
5
The ED–board chair relationship is the single most important indicator of nonprofit health.
Most boards are stuck on the tarmac — risk management — when they should be flying at altitude.
Role clarity is built through worked examples over time, not a one-time decision matrix.
How to give constructive feedback without killing motivation
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
8
Communication
8
Identity & self-belief
5
Minor issues often deserve silence, not feedback.
The three E's: expectation, example, empower — in that order.
Praise before criticism trains people to ignore both.
How to respond to burnout, difficult managers, and new team leadership
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Communication
7
Identity & self-belief
5
Asking 'why are you crying' puts people on the defensive — use what instead.
A new leader's first 90 days: listen, resist giving advice, earn trust first.
Your manager can't be your only career development source — build a personal board.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
How to figure out your career using strengths and life design
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Goal setting
7
Why your strengths feel ordinary — and why that fools you
The puzzle method: corner pieces are strengths, edges are life wants
You never need perfect experience to make a career move
Four core stories every leader needs to tell
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Communication
9
Management
6
Identity & self-belief
5
Telling the right story matters more than telling it well
Values on walls breed cynicism — only stories make them real
Sharing failures openly builds credibility, not vulnerability
Ending imposter syndrome starts with the organization, not the individual
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Culture building
9
Management
8
Imposter syndrome is a systemic problem, not a personal failing
Managers who only sponsor people like themselves are part of the problem
True allyship means taking real risk — silence in the room disqualifies you
How to lead a reorg without derailing your organisation
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Processes & SOPs
6
Slow reorgs cause more damage than the restructure itself
Structure must mirror strategy — not the other way round
Building org structure around one star performer almost always backfires
How to change minds by speaking to the instinctive brain first
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Communication
9
Objection handling
7
Identity & self-belief
5
Logic backfires — evidence makes stubborn people dig in harder.
People fear loss of status and certainty, not change itself.
Motivational interviewing flips resistance into self-generated openness.