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.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Chris Hadfield on astronaut mindset applied to everyday leadership
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Management
7
Work-life balance
6
Simulate failures before they happen — not just success
Arriving as a 'plus one' almost always lands as a minus one
Waiting for the pinnacle to feel successful makes daily life miserable
Three steps to soliciting feedback that actually gets results
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Communication
8
Why asking for feedback once almost never works
Start, stop, continue: the behavior-focused question model
Defending your actions after feedback destroys future honesty
Transitioning to remote leadership: mindset, trust, and async communication
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Remote teams
9
Management
7
Processes & SOPs
6
Stop asking if your team is working — ask if the work is done.
COVID made remote mindset harder, not easier, by forcing hasty adoption.
A communication charter eliminates channel confusion and Zoom fatigue.
Leadership development options: certifications, funding, and self-directed growth
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
8
Business operating systems
6
Processes & SOPs
5
Accreditation isn't required — build application, feedback, and accountability yourself.
How to turn an organization's 'no' on development funding into a future 'yes'.
Leadership handles change; management handles complexity — both are essential.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Entrepreneurial thinking every leader should adopt
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Long-term planning
6
MVP & prototyping
5
Why a side venture is career insurance, not a distraction
Small bets and MVPs beat 18-month plans that fail loudly
Intermediate metrics reveal whether you're on track between milestones
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Turning a career vision into reality through habits and identity
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Identity & self-belief
8
Productivity & habits
7
Management
5
Climbing the wrong mountain for years — how to spot the right one
Tiny daily habits outperform ambitious goals every time
A clear future identity unlocks movement no amount of effort alone can
Why people buy based on identity, not product features
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Branding
9
Growth hacking
5
People buy to signal who they are, not what they need.
Find congregations who share your beliefs — don't build audiences.
Heart loyalty outlasts habit or logic; culture is its source.
How to build influence and grow a platform in the digital economy
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Growth hacking
9
Delegation
7
Community building
6
Pick one platform and start — perfection is the enemy of launch.
Cold outreach works when it's collaborative, not a favour request.
Email and subscribers outperform social for building real community.
Objection handling
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Using questions to influence, inform, and build rapport
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Objection handling
8
Communication
8
B2B sales
5
Persuasion lands when the other person thinks they changed their own mind.
Start broad — the most important issue rarely appears in the brief.
Conclusive questions shift perspective without triggering defensive resistance.
How to run brainstorming sessions that actually generate good ideas
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
8
Processes & SOPs
7
Iteration & feedback loops
5
Groups settle on the first plausible idea to escape discomfort, not the best
It takes ~2,000 ideas to reach one commercial success — most teams stop at 8
Structure sessions before and after the room: the innovation sandwich
AI strategy & adoption
YouTube
How to use AI to think better and work more creatively
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
AI strategy & adoption
9
AI tools & automation
7
Deep work & focus
5
Better prompts, not better models, determine the quality of AI output
AI removes social inhibition from brainstorming — ask for 500 ideas, not five
88% of workplace AI gains come from non-technical workers experimenting independently
How to pitch your manager using purpose, preference, and protocol
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Communication
9
Pitching investors
5
Your manager is your biggest customer — research her accordingly.
Business case vs. personal reason: the distinction that kills most pitches.
Want, obstacle, resolution: a three-part story structure that gets buy-in.
Productivity & habits
YouTube
Daniel Pink on timing: daily schedules, midpoints, and peak performance
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Productivity & habits
8
Time management
8
Management
7
Your peak, trough, and recovery windows determine which tasks to do when
A judge's break — not the facts — predicts whether a prisoner gets parole
Teams nearly always accelerate at the exact midpoint of a project
Three stories leaders should tell during uncertainty
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
SEO
10
Automation & tools
6
Organizations are emotional systems — stories reach where data can't.
Failure stories become knowledge assets when you name what you learned.
The most important story type (transition) is the least often told.
Holacracy: replacing management hierarchy with distributed authority
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Processes & SOPs
7
Business operating systems
6
Managers don't create autonomy — structure does, by design
Governance meetings decide who decides, not what to decide
Leaders lose ego control but gain more organisational impact