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 manage up effectively and influence your boss
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Communication
8
Identity & self-belief
6
Prospecting & outreach
6
Your boss is your biggest customer — act accordingly.
Bring solutions, not problems; don't add to your boss's plate.
Coach up by framing behaviour as a shared business issue.
Leadership struggles: DEI, career transitions, and cross-functional influence
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Culture building
8
Communication
7
Identity & self-belief
6
Inclusive culture and exclusion are not opposites — reframe around energy, not behaviour.
Leaders chasing a new role are chasing a feeling; name the feeling first.
You can hold your people values and still speak the numbers person's language.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
How to get noticed without selling out: the edge framework
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Communication
7
Hard work is necessary but never sufficient on its own.
Read others' perceptions of you, then actively flip them in your favour.
Inquiry beats advocacy — underprepared and listening wins more rooms.
Bittersweet leadership: embracing sorrow to lead more fully
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Culture building
9
Management
7
Identity & self-belief
6
Suppressing sorrow at work cuts off your strongest bridge to connection.
Leaders with personal power can access sadness — not just anger.
Writing your true feelings improves health, relationships, and job prospects.
Accounting basics
YouTube
How to read an income statement for non-accountants
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Accounting basics
10
Communication
5
90% of business professionals can't read a financial statement — you can.
Eight line items from revenue to net income tell the whole story.
Spotting a P&L anomaly lets leaders act before problems compound.
How to build your team's brand on LinkedIn through consistent personal sharing
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Social media
9
Culture building
7
Branding
5
Posting your team's small wins builds a talent pipeline automatically.
The network you build on LinkedIn is always yours, not your employer's.
Consistent weekly posts outperform any single exceptional one.
Building trust through humble inquiry: moving from transactional to personal relationships
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Communication
8
Why transactional relationships silence the people below you
The boss must initiate — direct reports will always wait for the signal
In a world of contested facts, asking isn't just relational — it's survival
How to set specific, measurable goals that people actually achieve
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Processes & SOPs
5
Vague goals like 'communicate better' guarantee end-of-year disputes
Unattainable targets destroy motivation before work even starts
SMART framework turns fuzzy intentions into unambiguous, measurable outcomes
How to start a top job: lessons for new CEOs
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Communication
7
Productivity & habits
5
As CEO you hear less truth than ever — here's why
Early wins are for employees, not your own scoreboard
The 90-day urgency pressure usually comes from you, not the board
Three talent management principles every leader gets wrong
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Hiring & recruitment
8
Processes & SOPs
5
Outdated HR rules actively prevent hiring exceptional candidates.
Promoting top performers into management is two mistakes at once.
Training without a defined business outcome is an expense, not investment.
Blue ocean strategy
YouTube
Beyond zero-sum: creating new markets without disrupting existing ones
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Blue ocean strategy
9
Business models
6
You can grow without displacing competitors, jobs, or industries
Lead with value for users — technology that lacks it always fails
Replace 'should we' with 'could we' to unlock everyone's creativity
Resilience & grit
YouTube
How to learn from your own errors using three deliberate steps
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Management
5
Your ego blocks lessons from your own failures more than others'.
A three-step method — stop, challenge, choose — replaces panic with learning.
Psychological safety requires skilled daily behavior, not just a good climate.
How white leaders can actively support women of color at work
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Culture building
9
Management
7
Over 70% of women of color say their manager isn't invested in their success.
Calling yourself an ally means nothing without concrete, visible action.
White men — not white women — were behind most pivotal career sponsorships.
How to build an extraordinary workplace using psychology and science
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Culture building
9
Hiring & recruitment
8
Management
6
Perks attract talent but only three psychological needs keep people engaged
In-person interviews are unreliable — job-relevant auditions predict performance better
Culture is shaped by what leaders reward, not what they say they value
How to build a productive working relationship with your board
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Processes & SOPs
6
Executives who withhold from boards tend to get pushed out
Reset context at every meeting -- board members disconnect fast
Generative questions replace passive reports with genuine engagement