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.
Work-life balance
YouTube
How high achievers can win at work without losing at life
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Work-life balance
9
Productivity & habits
7
Management
5
Hard constraints on work hours unlock more productivity, not less.
Hobbies must differ from your profession to actually restore you.
Work friendships dissolve when proximity ends — real ones survive it.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Edith Eger on forgiveness, choice, and reclaiming joy after trauma
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Mental health & wellbeing
6
Forgiveness means refusing to let hatred poison your own spirit
Victimization is optional — suffering is not the same as being stuck
Why looks backward; what and how move you forward
The Kirkpatrick model: four levels for training that drives results
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
8
Processes & SOPs
6
Why the training event alone can never produce real behaviour change
Start at level four results, work backwards to design the learning
89 days of performance support matter more than the 90-day survey
How military debriefs can stop your team repeating mistakes
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Processes & SOPs
7
Learning only happens when behaviour changes — not when you talk.
"What went well?" without a defined objective produces opinions, not accountability.
Sharing debrief leadership across the team rapidly develops everyone.
How to build real self-awareness as a leader
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Communication
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Resilience & grit
5
Senior leaders are the least likely people to be self-aware.
A small group of 'loving critics' beats broad feedback-seeking every time.
Vague feedback questions trigger silence; specific ones unlock honest answers.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
How to protect and maintain your confidence over time
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Confidence depends on how you interpret events, not what happens
A three-step method to interrupt and replace negative self-talk
Why top performers treat every miss as evidence the next will land
How to handle team conflict, mastermind groups, and workplace flow
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Delegation
9
Management
7
Business operating systems
5
Micromanaging strips you of the context that makes good decisions possible.
Sales-marketing friction usually comes from marketing lacking firsthand client context.
Personal responsibility — not organizational blame — is the first step to protecting deep work.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Building great relationships by starting with yourself
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
6
Loneliness is as damaging to health as smoking a pack daily
Your own crab mentality blocks great relationships before others do
Self-doubt isn't an obstacle to confidence — it's the fuel for it
Automation & tools
YouTube
Holiday gift guide: tools and services for leaders and learners
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Automation & tools
8
Productivity & habits
6
Real tools they bought before any affiliate deal existed
SaneBox and Acuity Scheduling eliminate email and scheduling friction
Apple Watch's discreet vibration timer keeps keynotes and meetings on track
How leaders can better support high-achieving women at work
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Communication
7
Work-life balance
5
Asking 'How can I support you?' beats unilateral nudges every time.
Proactively sharing salary ranges removes fear from pay negotiations.
Chasing work-life balance causes burnout — reframe it as seasons.
Practical tools for team communication, building confidence, and letting go of control
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Communication
8
Management
7
Ready-made, low-cost tools to surface team communication styles fast
Set the bar so low it's impossible to fail — then raise it
Strong emotions feel like certainty but usually aren't
What high performers aren't telling their managers
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Delegation
6
Good managers cause high performers to stay too long.
Lack of autonomy over how work is done drives stress and exits.
Proactive career conversations retain more than reactive ones ever will.
Three steps to effective career conversations with employees
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
8
Communication
6
Ask for life stories, not values — people can't lie through their past
A career vision, however fuzzy, unlocks a concrete action plan
Managers drive 70% of engagement, which drives 147% earnings outperformance
How to make one-on-ones meaningful through role purpose and growth alignment
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Delegation
5
Most one-on-ones fail because task check-ins crowd out real conversation
Defining a role's purpose as a guiding question unlocks genuine engagement
Personal growth and job performance belong in one conversation, not two
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Career strategy Q&A: guilt, coaching, executive access, and framing your resume
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Identity & self-belief
8
Delegation
7
Communication
6
Organisations have no loyalty to you — stop feeling guilty for leaving.
One question per executive encounter beats an interrogation every time.
The story you tell about retail experience shapes how others hear it.