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 multiply your impact by shifting from contributor to impact player
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
8
Identity & self-belief
7
Doing your job well is not enough — do the job that's needed.
Upward empathy: understand your boss's pressures before your own preferences.
Make contributions visible without self-promotion, like Intel Inside.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Creating a shared learning culture: the leader as curator and teacher
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Resilience & grit
8
Automation & tools
7
Skill relevancy now lasts five years — and it's shrinking fast.
Hoarding knowledge weakens influence; targeted sharing builds team performance.
Psychological safety is the prerequisite: without it, no sharing happens.
Four unique types of teams and how to lead each
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Delegation
7
Processes & SOPs
6
Most 'teams' are actually independent groups — and that's fine.
Two axes — interdependence and expertise — define four team types.
Goals, meetings, and rewards must match the team type to work.
Kickstarting leadership development: skills, assessments, and work-life balance
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Work-life balance
6
Reading leadership books without practising creates an illusion of growth.
360 feedback is high-risk and costly — individual assessments are the safer start.
You have more control over overwork than company culture implies.
How to get what you want from conflict: three practical steps
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Communication
9
Resilience & grit
5
Trying to prove you're right almost never resolves conflict.
Most people can't accurately name what they're feeling in the moment.
Asking 'what do I want now?' shifts focus from blame to resolution.
How to build meaningful relationships at conferences
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Shift from attendee to host mindset to unlock natural connections
Approach speakers before they go on stage, not after
A curated dinner of 5–10 people beats hours on the conference floor
Building belonging and psychological safety in remote and hybrid teams
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Culture building
9
Remote teams
8
Management
6
Hybrid fails when leaders impose rigid schedules to preserve power.
Psychological safety has three levels — and innovation requires climbing all three.
Silent brainstorming outperforms group brainstorming for diverse, high-quality ideas.
Deep work & focus
YouTube
Practical meditation for professionals to reduce stress and sharpen focus
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Deep work & focus
9
Resilience & grit
5
A quiet mind solves problems faster than a stressed one
Start with two minutes — not 30 — to build the habit
Return to your breath to stop one conversation's emotion poisoning the next
Founder interviews
YouTube
Ten years of building Coaching for Leaders: lessons from Dave Stachowiak
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Founder interviews
9
Processes & SOPs
6
Constraints forced the discipline that made the show work.
Four to five hours of prep per episode, narrowed to one actionable focus.
Ten years as a reflector — now shifting toward sharing his own perspective.
Succession planning: where to start and why most leaders avoid it
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Delegation
8
Management
7
Not preparing a successor means failing as a leader, full stop
Plan for the organization's future state, not today's leadership gaps
Letting go requires building something to move toward, not just stepping back
Avoiding oblivious leadership: strategies from Robert Sutton's Friction Project
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Culture building
6
Power structurally isolates leaders from the friction they create.
Talk less, ask more — measure your question-to-statement ratio.
Walking out of the room beats walking around it.
New management practices that challenge business as usual
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Processes & SOPs
6
Salary transparency reduces the gender wage gap and boosts collaboration
Non-competes hurt firms and employees — California's ban helped build Silicon Valley
Annual reviews fail; monthly ten-minute coaching check-ins work better
Conflict resolution
YouTube
How to recognise and escape high conflict before it traps you
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Conflict resolution
9
Resilience & grit
5
Humiliation — not anger — is the hidden fuel of escalating conflict.
Binary group identities predictably trigger bad behaviour in any setting.
A 3-to-1 positive-to-negative interaction ratio builds resilience before conflict hits.
Founder interviews
YouTube
Permission to screw up: building a culture of failure and growth
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Founder interviews
9
Culture building
8
Admitting mistakes publicly is the fastest way to build trust
Soft skills must be taught deliberately — never assumed
Don't let others' definition of success become your own
How to get the most out of training: a Q&A guide for managers
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Communication
8
Processes & SOPs
6
Lecture-style software training fails — simulations and self-pacing work better
Paying for training yourself dramatically increases follow-through
Recording a live class rarely produces useful online learning