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 the UN Foundation raised $224M for WHO in weeks during COVID-19
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Case studies
10
Communication
7
Fundraising & VC
6
$224M raised from 500,000 donors in weeks — far beyond expectations
COVID recovery spending is the SDGs' biggest near-term leverage point
Optimism means taking the first concrete step, not just dreaming
How to lead a team through workplace loss
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
10
Resilience & grit
5
Workplaces function as family systems — loss hits harder than expected.
Stability and continuing operations reduce anxiety more than pausing work.
Leaders must create grief conversations, not just allow them to happen.
How to create team operating guidelines that actually stick
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Culture building
10
Management
7
Conflict resolution
6
The conversation that creates guidelines matters more than the document itself.
Getting genuine yes-or-no commitment from every team member surfaces hidden blockers early.
Guidelines built before conflict hits give teams a shared reference to navigate storming.
Why your motive for leading determines how well you lead
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Communication
6
Wrong leadership motive drives avoidance of the job's hardest parts.
Not having difficult conversations is selfishness, not kindness.
Repetition is the job: employees need seven exposures before believing a message.
Productivity & habits
YouTube
Building leadership habits through consistency and decision stamina
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Productivity & habits
9
Resilience & grit
6
Delegation
5
Every small decision drains a finite cognitive reserve — habits conserve it.
Heuristics pre-decide whole categories of choices, freeing you to lead.
Consistent two-minute starts beat ambitious beginnings that collapse.
How to attract attention by controlling your personal narrative
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Branding
8
Identity & self-belief
7
Your story is a mixing board — raise the right faders deliberately.
Turn your most embarrassing weakness into your defining differentiator.
Silence self-qualifying language for one week to build narrative muscle.
Building a personal knowledge management system: capture, curate, create
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
We each face 174 newspapers worth of content daily — most wasted
Tagging bookmarks beats folders: one item, multiple topics, always searchable
One-to-one sharing outperforms broadcasting to hundreds of followers
How to help your team find the right work using Working Genius
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Culture building
9
Hiring & recruitment
6
Outsourcing & delegation
5
Burnout comes from the wrong type of work, not too much work
Most teams skip activation — the critical middle stage between ideas and execution
A $25 assessment can reveal team misalignment and fix it within hours
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Comfort zones and capacity: how introverts can grow without burning out
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Productivity & habits
8
Work-life balance
7
Your comfort zone is a recovery base, not a cage
Tiny, structured first steps beat ambitious leaps every time
Celebrating small wins is what makes the long game sustainable
Leadership when your team knows more than you
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Hiring & recruitment
6
Having more-expert reports is an advantage, not a threat to your authority.
Short-term incentives teach compliance, not culture — pay well then focus on autonomy.
Structured role requirements beat gut feel when hiring across communication differences.
Getting better at empathy: Daniel Goleman on emotional intelligence
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Communication
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Mental health & wellbeing
6
Empathy has three types — only one makes people want to follow you.
Too much empathy leads to avoiding feedback, not giving it.
EI is learnable at any age; start with mid-range strengths, not weaknesses.
How to rehearse effectively before a high-stakes presentation
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Public speaking
10
Deep work & focus
5
Underprepared speakers hit cognitive overload and can't connect with audiences.
Distributed rehearsal across days beats last-minute cramming every time.
Deliberately building failure into practice teaches the brain to recover.
Simon Sinek on the infinite game and building a just cause
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Vision & mission
10
Management
7
Resilience & grit
6
Playing to win in a game with no finish line destroys trust and innovation.
A just cause is future-oriented — worth sacrificing for, never fully achievable.
Products advance the cause; when you define yourself by the product, you're fragile.
Work-life balance
YouTube
How to reduce overconnectedness and improve meeting quality at work
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Work-life balance
8
Processes & SOPs
8
Management
6
Most people are connected to work 72 hours a week, not 40.
Meetings without agendas or clear roles are the top time drain.
Training your team well is what earns you the right to disconnect.
How to stop rescuing people and become a more coach-like leader
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Delegation
9
Management
7
Most leaders default to rescuer — and it backfires
Rescuing creates dependency; asking 'what do you want from me?' breaks the cycle
Saying no is a core leadership skill, not a failure to help