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.
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
How to build an inclusive hiring process that attracts overlooked talent
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Hiring & recruitment
9
Culture building
5
Gendered job listing words cut female applicants — swapping them costs nothing.
Blind résumé review eliminates name-based bias before any interview happens.
Degree requirements exclude qualified candidates without improving hire quality.
Meetings as a symptom: Seth Godin on significance at work
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Culture building
8
Management
7
Identity & self-belief
5
Most meetings are managers taking attendance, not conversations
300 volunteers built a book in 5 months with zero meetings
Tolerating bullies costs more than firing them ever would
Lessons in diplomacy and leadership from Susan Rice
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Delegation
9
Founder interviews
8
Resilience & grit
6
Brutal feedback at 32 forced a complete leadership reckoning
People follow decisions they disagree with if they felt truly heard
Political attacks cost innocent families — children who never chose public life
Handling peer lobbying, team diversity, and leading change in resistant cultures
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Communication
9
Hiring & recruitment
7
Delegation
5
Interview a peer's candidate — it costs nothing and builds goodwill.
Without senior leadership backing, change efforts will stall or backfire.
Let leads choose their own development competency to drive real engagement.
Leadership and management as complementary systems in organizations
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Business operating systems
6
Management and leadership serve opposite purposes — both are essential.
Every mature organization slowly kills its own leadership capacity.
A dual operating system — not task forces — is the only lasting fix.
How to receive feedback well: a six-step framework
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Communication
9
Resilience & grit
7
Management
6
The receiver — not the giver — decides what feedback to act on.
Replace 'any feedback?' with one specific question that actually works.
Small experiments beat all-or-nothing decisions when trying feedback out.
Staying the course: how to think long-term when results are slow
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Goal setting
8
Resilience & grit
7
Long-term planning
6
Real traction from building expertise takes two to three years minimum.
People underestimate timelines by up to 12x — calibration beats willpower.
Intrinsic value and trusted advisors prevent quitting just before the breakthrough.
How Allan McDonald refused to sign off on the Challenger launch
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Case studies
9
Resilience & grit
7
Communication
6
The one man who officially refused to approve the Challenger launch
Speaking up cost McDonald his job — it took an act of Congress to reinstate him
Professional obligation to dissent exists even when it cannot change the outcome
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Why struggling with learning is essential to changing behaviour
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Knowledge is easy; behaviour change is what real learning actually means.
Mastery takes thousands of hours — early discomfort is the signal, not the problem.
Your mastery doesn't make the struggle easier for people you lead.
How to empower differences and build a more inclusive workplace
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Culture building
8
Hiring & recruitment
5
Your differences are positioning advantages, not liabilities to hide
Pronoun sharing benefits everyone — not only LGBTQ+ colleagues
Self-assessment before action: fix your own gaps first
Pitching investors
YouTube
Leadership principles from a four-star general's 40-year career
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Pitching investors
8
Copywriting
7
Command is 15 minutes a day; the rest is coaching.
Trust built in peacetime determines whether troops break under chaos.
History is a warning system — unread leaders become incompetent.
Productivity & habits
YouTube
Six research-based tactics to achieve extraordinary performance at work
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
7
Goal setting
6
10,000 hours of practice won't make you better if you're on autopilot.
A hospital supervisor generated 120 improvement ideas by measuring meeting quality weekly.
Short-term performance dips are the price of long-term extraordinary results.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
How to respond better when your identity is challenged
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Communication
5
Guilt drives repair; shame drives retreat — feel the right one.
Brief values reflection inoculates you against defensive overreaction.
Being 'good-ish' beats 'good person' — it leaves room to grow.
Productivity & habits
YouTube
Using data and personal analytics to solve problems faster
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Productivity & habits
9
Time management
8
Business operating systems
6
A problem well defined is a problem half solved — collect data first
Quantify both your workload and capacity to expose the real gap
Fix the time, flex the scope to reclaim peace-of-mind productivity
Simon Sinek on why, trust, and leading people not numbers
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
10
Vision & mission
8
Identity & self-belief
5
Knowing your why is a decision filter, not a motivational slogan
Fulfilment comes from others' growth, not personal achievement
Costco beat GE 2x over 40 years by putting people first