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.
Productivity & habits
YouTube
Ten principles for learning faster, drawn from guitar lessons
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Productivity & habits
9
Resilience & grit
7
Coaching
5
Daily 15-minute practice beats a single two-hour weekly session
Struggling with a new skill is a feature, not a failure
Habit structure — not willpower — determines whether learning sticks
Managing performance gaps and over-confidence on your team
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Delegation
5
Withholding feedback to protect a colleague is bias, not kindness.
Daily accountability mentions beat periodic difficult conversations every time.
Competence, capacity, and character need different fixes — conflating them wastes effort.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Four steps to get unstuck and embrace change with Susan David
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Suppressing difficult emotions undermines resilience — noticing them builds it
Precise emotion labeling unlocks better decisions than one-word defaults
Want-to goals (values-driven) sustain change; have-to goals breed resentment
Conflict resolution
YouTube
How to turn workplace conflict into productive outcomes
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Conflict resolution
9
Management
6
Processes & SOPs
5
The blame frame ends in punishment — the aim frame ends in solutions
Wants clash; underlying needs almost always have common ground
Build team relationships before conflict strikes, not during
How a law firm partner transformed his delegation and leadership style
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Delegation
9
Management
8
Identity & self-belief
6
Hiding from your team signals overload, not leadership authority.
Delegation becomes powerful when reframed as developing people, not dumping work.
Asking more questions in conversations lets associates solve their own problems.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
How to identify and change the beliefs shaping your leadership
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Management
7
Beliefs, not tactics, are what actually drive leadership outcomes.
Self-fulfilling cycles make wrong beliefs feel like facts.
Change the belief first — supporting evidence follows automatically.
How to lead and influence remote teams effectively
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Communication
8
Processes & SOPs
5
Why everyone's responsibility always becomes no one's responsibility
Written tasks get done more often than verbal ones — here's why
Go slow: the right way to transition a team to remote work
How to lead part-time staff: mindset, scheduling, and culture
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Culture building
8
Identity & self-belief
5
Why a broken schedule destroys trust before coaching can begin
Hire for values, not experience — skills can always be trained
Treat part-time employees as guests: invest fully, even knowing they'll leave
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
How to know what you don't know: metacognition and learning at work
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Culture building
8
Communication
5
Why high performers are most at risk from the Dunning-Kruger effect
Build a mentoring team of four roles, not a single mentor
Saying 'I don't know' out loud is the foundation of organisational learning
How to respond when an employee resigns
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Retention & loyalty
6
50% of counter-offer acceptees still leave within two years
Your first reaction in the moment is what employees remember longest
Graceful exits turn departing staff into future customers or rehires
Starting a big leadership role: mindsets, mandate, and peer relationships
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Identity & self-belief
8
Peer relationships predict new-role success more than managing up or down.
Feeling lost is the accurate signal you're taking the role seriously.
Separate yourself as a person from yourself as the organisational entity.
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
How exceptional leaders develop and release talent
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Hiring & recruitment
9
Delegation
8
Management
7
Top leaders hire on the spot by always talent-spotting everywhere
Intensive coaching plus big delegation — not one or the other
Strategically releasing top performers builds loyalty and lasting networks
How to build a leadership brand in three steps
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Communication
9
Branding
8
Vision & mission
7
Your brand is how others experience what you believe — not your logo.
Mission almost always originates in suffering or personal adversity.
Humility is a leadership virtue but a brand liability — be direct instead.
Both/and thinking: moving beyond either/or to solve hard problems
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Goal setting
7
Either/or decisions feel safe but shrink your options permanently
Change the question before you answer it — 'stay or go' to 'stay and go'
Real both/and is dynamic: consistent inconsistency beats one-time integration
How to hire a training company: what leaders need to know
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Training changes behavior — education only adds knowledge
Leader involvement during training predicts success more than anything else
The leader wanting change is often the biggest obstacle to it