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.
Uniting a global multi-company team to build the F-35 fighter jet
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Culture building
9
Hiring & recruitment
7
Management
6
Competitors forced to collaborate: how a shared identity replaced company loyalty
Best-athlete hiring put rival-company staff in the most senior roles
120 new hires per week — and why the GM addressed every single cohort
How new leaders can build credibility and navigate early challenges
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Communication
7
Identity & self-belief
6
Being young in a leadership role is less a barrier than you think
Positive organisational politics: pursue your interests while honouring others'
Crisis-mode communication habits quietly damage cross-department relationships
What to hold people accountable for in organizational performance
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Processes & SOPs
6
Holding individuals accountable for targets triggers gaming, not performance.
Own the measure: monitor it, interpret it validly, initiate action.
Teams that manage their own metrics can eventually self-manage entirely.
A five-step framework for effective on-the-job training
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Delegation
9
Management
7
Demonstrate silently first — narrating as you go undermines the learning.
Skipping organisational outcome in training can cost far more than the skill.
In-the-moment coaching beats delayed feedback: people remember what they just did.
Productivity & habits
YouTube
How to build a personal networking plan with intention
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Productivity & habits
8
Prospecting & outreach
6
Communication
5
Why networking reactively — only when you need something — always backfires
Write 50 names on a conversations list before attending a single event
15 focused, engaging minutes on social media beats 45 passive ones
Leading people through change by harnessing emotion as fuel
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
8
Communication
7
Suppressing signal emotions stalls change — acknowledging them unlocks it.
Emotion is fuel; without it, even perfect change structures go nowhere.
Five-minute change check-ins in one-on-ones dramatically lift engagement.
Using StrengthsFinder's four leadership domains to navigate team dynamics
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Delegation
7
Teams that look similar usually have more useful differences than they realise.
Four leadership demands — executing, influencing, relationships, thinking — reveal hidden gaps.
Naming strengths partnerships before friction arises converts conflict into collaboration.
Prospecting & outreach
YouTube
How to get maximum value from professional associations
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Prospecting & outreach
9
Communication
8
Community building
6
Deep involvement in two or three groups beats joining many
Organising events turns you into the connector others seek out
Interviewing members is the easiest door-opener nobody uses
How leaders ask questions shapes team safety and decisions
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Communication
9
Delegation
6
Seven specific question habits that silence teams and kill decisions
El Faro's black box transcript reveals how language caused 33 deaths
Word-count inequality in meetings predicts team resilience
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
How to manage your inner critic and stop waiting for confidence
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
6
Your inner critic is a safety instinct in disguise, not the truth.
Waiting for confidence is the wrong goal — act with doubt present.
Never argue with the inner critic; move to the meta level instead.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
How originals think and act: lessons from Adam Grant on non-conformism
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Culture building
7
Successful entrepreneurs keep their day jobs — 33% less likely to fail.
Procrastination aids creativity; originals are quick to start, slow to finish.
Biggest barrier to originality is self-censorship, not a lack of ideas.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Building a personal brand from the inside out: five core elements
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Personal brand built on inner values, not image or status.
Vision without a visible daily reminder stays a fantasy.
You can shift others' perception of you within weeks.
Deep work & focus
YouTube
How attention works and why mindfulness training strengthens it
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Deep work & focus
9
Productivity & habits
5
Stress, threat, and poor mood predictably degrade attention — especially for leaders.
A cluttered working memory means you're neurally still in the last meeting.
Mindfulness is attention training, not stress relief — 12 minutes a day measurably works.
Six steps for starting a conversation with anyone
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Communication
9
Prospecting & outreach
7
Great networkers aren't talented — they just take one extra step
Active listening means no interrupting and no preparing your next line
Write your follow-up email immediately after the event, then schedule it
Coaching Q&A: skill fit, values alignment, blind spots, and work-life balance
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
8
Work-life balance
7
Business models
5
Coaching only works when the person wants to change
Successful entrepreneurs are risk-averse — validate before leaving your job
Values misalignment is normal; find the business-case overlap and start small