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 find, hire, and get the most from an executive coach
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Delegation
5
The best time to hire a coach is when things are going well.
Interview three coaches with different backgrounds before deciding.
Companies get 529–788% ROI — frame coaching as value creation, not cost.
Long-term planning
YouTube
How to make better decisions by removing bias from the process
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Long-term planning
8
Management
7
Deep work & focus
5
Judging decisions by outcomes is systematically wrong — here's why.
Pros/cons lists amplify bias; probability mapping removes it.
Independent pre-meeting input stops teams collapsing into one opinion.
How to grow your professional network without feeling slimy
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Communication
8
Identity & self-belief
7
Networking feels dirty because most people approach it from scarcity
Ask 'how can I help?' — it creates natural follow-up every time
Planting seeds over years beats hunting for results in one meeting
How top CEOs shape team dynamics, not just team mechanics
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
10
Culture building
8
Hiring & recruitment
6
Elite CEOs manage team psychology first — mechanics second.
Staff for one aptitude (short vs. long term) and one attitude (enterprise first).
Four levers — role modeling, story, enablement, consequences — drive any behavior shift.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Building lasting habits by starting with identity, not outcomes
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Productivity & habits
9
Why your identity — not your goals — determines whether habits stick
Every small habit casts a vote for the person you're becoming
Progress feels flat until a sudden phase transition — the work was stored, not wasted
How to motivate leaders: John Maxwell on finding what drives people
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Founder interviews
8
Leaders want opportunity, not security — treat them accordingly.
Ask each person directly what they need, then lead them that way.
Consistency compounds; daily progress beats occasional home runs.
Gallup data on the global rise of unhappiness and what leaders can do
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Culture building
9
Customer experience
6
Management
5
GDP is rising yet global negative emotions have grown for a decade.
70% of employees lack roles that use their strengths — fixable by managers.
Buying decisions are 70% emotional; most organisations measure only the rational 30%.
How to build a genuinely inclusive culture at work
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Culture building
9
Identity & self-belief
5
30% of Millennials have already left a job for a more inclusive culture.
Programs and numbers aren't enough — belonging is built in daily moments.
Why CEO-mandated inclusion beats grassroots resource groups every time.
Five steps to hold people accountable without micromanaging
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Delegation
9
Management
6
Accountability only lands when people feel genuinely cared about.
Five structured steps move from casual observation to high-stakes decisions.
Most feedback fails because managers skip straight to the heavy conversation.
How to get noticed by key stakeholders and build your career brand
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Communication
8
Identity & self-belief
6
Treat yourself as a product: market, price, competition, expiry risk.
Exposure — who knows you — outweighs performance once you're senior.
Map stakeholders by influence and interest; invest time proportionally.
Vulnerability and practical frameworks for new school leaders
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
8
Identity & self-belief
6
Admitting ignorance earns trust; projecting false confidence alienates peers.
Lencioni's hungry, humble, smart matrix cuts through 100 identical resumes.
A vivid vision forces you to decide what you're okay with not being great at.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Building championship readiness: lessons from an Olympic athlete and coach
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
7
Management
5
Three to five pivotal moments each year make or break careers.
Chasing perfection kills timing — focus on the 1–2% that must go right.
Preparation earns the belief that you deserve to succeed.
Conversion rate optimisation
YouTube
Why new ideas fail: reducing friction, not adding fuel
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Conversion rate optimisation
8
Objection handling
7
Resistance to change is friction, not a flaw in your idea.
Repetition and early exposure matter more than a perfect launch.
Never give one option — relativity steers decisions toward your preferred choice.
How to build and protect your online reputation using social media
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Social media
9
Branding
9
If you're not online, rating sites will define you instead.
A Google Alert is the single highest-value monitoring tool you can set up.
Social media presence pushes rating sites off page one of search results.
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
Practical steps for leaders to advance diversity and inclusion
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Hiring & recruitment
9
Culture building
8
Communication
6
Blind spots are structural — segregated networks produce them regardless of intent.
Exposure to people unlike you is the most reliable bias-reducer available.
Apologise simply, don't explain; practise repair before you need it.