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.
Leading without authority: why it's all on you
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Delegation
9
Communication
8
Resilience & grit
6
Waiting for others to meet you halfway is stealing from your employer.
Your team is everyone you need — not just who reports to you.
Porosity: why showing your part first unlocks change in others.
How to build a network that compounds over time
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Communication
8
Identity & self-belief
5
High achievers build friendships, not contacts — never transactions.
You always have something to offer, even to Nobel Prize winners.
The 24-7-30 rule turns one meeting into a lasting relationship.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
How growth mindset and emotional intelligence help leaders recover from crisis
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Management
7
Communication
6
Affect precedes cognition — unaddressed emotions derail even smart leaders
Retreating into work when life is hard creates bigger problems later
Peer learning communities built EI as a shared organisational language
Leading through continuous change: a digital transformation framework
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Vision & mission
7
Culture building
5
Fear of disruption alone never drives real organisational change.
A North Star impact answers why — not just what — to transform.
Cascading up: teams propose their own contribution, leadership agrees.
Sorting and labeling: how to make your message stick
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Communication
9
Public speaking
7
Brains retain numbered, labeled chunks — unstructured talk loses listeners fast.
Announce all labels before explaining any — explaining kills the framework.
Live demo proves: two of three points recalled minutes later, unprompted.
Vulnerable leadership: combining emotional openness with decisive action
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Culture building
6
Identity & self-belief
5
Vulnerability without a forward action step actively undermines leadership.
Leaders are implicitly dependent on their teams — almost no one says it aloud.
Life will eventually force vulnerability; build the tools before the crisis hits.
How to detect and eliminate organizational sabotage
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Processes & SOPs
8
Conflict resolution
6
1944 CIA sabotage tactics are alive in your meetings today
Every destructive habit hides behind a legitimate virtue
Fix committees, CC overload, and haggling with three steps each
How to connect with people better using supercommunicator skills
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Communication
9
Management
6
Mismatched conversation types — not bad intent — cause most disconnection.
Deep questions bypass workplace stereotypes and invite authentic self-disclosure.
Reciprocal vulnerability beats one-sided curiosity for building real trust.
Using the Enneagram to build self-awareness and lead better
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
8
Culture building
6
Identity & self-belief
5
Self-awareness, not charisma or vision, is what top CEOs share
Nine personality types, each driven by a distinct unconscious motivation
Knowing your team's types cuts friction and prevents years of avoidable mistakes
How innovators get traction inside large organizations
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Culture building
8
Long-term planning
6
Processes & SOPs
5
CEOs praise innovation while rewarding middle managers for quarterly revenue
Find early adopter leaders first — ignore detractors until you have a win
Relatable internal success stories beat any slide deck citing Google or Amazon
How to find and build a library of leadership stories
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Communication
9
Culture building
6
Leaders have stories already — they just lack a system to find them.
Telling the right stories creates the culture that generates more of them.
Name every story you own; a title turns memory into a retrievable asset.
Managing up, team guidelines, and reading strategies for leaders
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
8
Productivity & habits
5
Reframe upward influence around organisational goals, not personal grievances.
Co-created team expectations outperform top-down mandates every time.
Read non-sequentially, drop mediocre books, follow curiosity over targets.
How to lead through organisational change using neuroscience
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Communication
9
Management
8
70% of change efforts fail due to neglecting change leadership over management
Brain hardwiring splits teams into reward-seekers and threat-avoiders — message to both
Your 20% supporters can flip to resistors if ignored and unrecognised
MVP & prototyping
YouTube
Marketing as an act of service: Seth Godin on permission, audience, and the long cut
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Serve the smallest possible audience obsessively — mass markets are dead.
Own your audience list; social platforms are rented land, not assets.
Effort alone won't break through fear — change the story first.
How managers shape employee wellbeing across all five life domains
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Culture building
7
Your job and manager predict life satisfaction more than anything else.
Engaged employees get four times more positive feedback than disengaged ones.
Transparent pay conversations outperform above-market pay with silence.