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 engage remote teams: three research-backed practices
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Remote teams
9
Management
6
Surveillance software humiliates employees and accelerates attrition.
Schedule informal time in every meeting — leader-led, every time.
Force task conflict deliberately; the first idea is rarely the best.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
How to design a longer life across multiple career and life stages
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Identity & self-belief
8
Long-term planning
7
Communication
5
Children born today have a 50%+ chance of reaching 100.
Diverse networks — not close friends — enable career reinvention.
Age no longer predicts life stage; lockstep careers are ending.
How money undermines motivation and what to do instead
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Motivation
8
Large bonuses increase stress and actually reduce performance
A sincere compliment outperforms cash in controlled experiments
Long-term signals — equity, benefits, stability — beat short-term incentives
How leaders can create conditions where people speak truth to power
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Communication
9
Culture building
6
Leaders silence voices without knowing it — power blinds you to your own impact.
Where and when you ask matters more than whether you ask.
Small talk isn't wasted time — it's the foundation that makes hard conversations possible.
How to talk to people who have power — from both sides
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Communication
9
Public speaking
8
Identity & self-belief
6
Advocate for your team, not your boss — it builds lasting results.
Prep strips away the stardust; presence closes the power gap.
Five percent of research puts you in the 95th percentile of askers.
Building an unstoppable organisational culture: lessons from Southwest Airlines
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Culture building
9
Hiring & recruitment
7
Business operating systems
5
Southwest hired only 2% of applicants — rigour before day one.
Culture needs 100+ active systems, not good intentions.
Being too prescriptive kills the behaviour you're trying to create.
Leading millennials: practical strategies for closing the generational gap
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Identity & self-belief
5
Millennials never needed authority figures — so they never learned to build upward relationships.
Ambiguity is millennial kryptonite: assume nothing, spell out everything explicitly.
Timely, informal feedback that affirms the relationship lands; formal reviews don't.
How to solve really big problems using co-creation and stakeholder thinking
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Customer discovery
7
Vision & mission
5
Letting go of control consistently produces better outcomes than tightening it
Map who stands to lose — overlooked resistors become saboteurs
Co-created solutions generate their own momentum; imposed ones always face criticism
Active listening as a leadership practice: how to make people feel heard
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Communication
9
Management
6
Most listening is fake — people are waiting to respond, not learn.
Treating someone's disclosure as a fragile gift changes how you show up.
Not being ready to listen is human; what you do next is the skill.
How to reduce burnout as a leader: a practical framework
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Processes & SOPs
5
Self-care cannot fix burnout caused by bad organisational conditions
A weekly highs-and-lows check-in surfaces burnout before it escalates
Chasing happiness at work backfires — removing burnout causes comes first
Handling difficult team members, resistance to change, and organizational culture
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Culture building
8
Resilience & grit
6
Not intervening on a problem employee reflects worse on you than them.
Movement matters more than speed — a small step beats no step.
One person cannot change a large institution's culture alone.
Business operating systems
YouTube
Building management structure in early-stage startups
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Business operating systems
8
Management
7
Scaling Up and EOS give founders a ready-made operating structure to adopt
Annual performance reviews are out; frequent, coach-like feedback is in
Alliances fail without dedicated resources and measurable non-financial outcomes
Burnout is a management problem, not an individual failing
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Culture building
6
Burnout has three components — exhaustion alone isn't enough to qualify
The canary doesn't need toughening; the mine needs fixing
Surveys that never report back actively worsen cynicism and burnout
A practical guide to corporate budgeting for leaders
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Processes & SOPs
9
Cash flow management
8
Communication
5
Budgeting is about people and transparency, not just money.
Weekly reviews eliminate year-end spending panics entirely.
Padding your budget adds stress and hides what things actually cost.
Productivity & habits
YouTube
How to build lasting habits using emotion, not repetition
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Productivity & habits
10
Identity & self-belief
5
Emotions wire in habits — repetition alone never will
Shrink the behavior to almost nothing; celebrate immediately after
Tiny wins reduce fear, raise motivation, and trigger bigger changes