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.
Six mistakes leaders make when sending people to training
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Processes & SOPs
5
Your absence from training signals it doesn't matter to the team.
Using training to deliver feedback instead of a direct conversation almost always backfires.
Training ends at the classroom door only if the leader goes silent afterward.
How to start leading when you feel clueless, handle toxic staff, and stay authentic
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Identity & self-belief
8
Communication
7
Measure leadership progress against yourself, not peers
Toxic employees deserve direct feedback before any termination move
Core beliefs stay fixed; leadership style adapts to context
Business operating systems
YouTube
The four disciplines of execution: a practical framework for moving numbers
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Business operating systems
9
Processes & SOPs
7
Management
6
Too many goals kill execution — pick one wildly important goal.
Lead measures are the inputs teams can actually control and predict outcomes.
Weekly accountability sessions make strategy a game people want to win.
From founder-operator to CEO: making the mindset shift
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Delegation
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Management
6
Why doing everything yourself stalls a growing team
Reviewing your calendar daily compounds into strategic time mastery
CEOs who ask for help outperform those who go it alone
Resilience & grit
YouTube
How to make progress when starting something new
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Resilience & grit
8
Identity & self-belief
7
Delegation
6
Fire cheap bullets first — cannonballs miss without range-finding.
Your self-story may be quietly sabotaging your next beginning.
Conscious practice beats habit when you need to keep learning.
Moving fast without breaking things: a framework for urgent change
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Processes & SOPs
7
Business operating systems
5
Speed and care aren't a trade-off — collateral damage is optional.
Reducing work in progress beats pushing people to work harder.
Getting better at the right things demands deliberately getting worse at others.
How to lead through complexity using experimentation and humility
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Identity & self-belief
6
Complex problems can't be solved like complicated ones — context always changes.
Create conditions for good outcomes instead of trying to control outcomes directly.
Failure only becomes useful when leaders make it safe to talk about.
Productivity & habits
YouTube
How to take smart notes and read for meaning, not details
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
6
Rereading creates false familiarity — it is not the same as understanding.
Each Zettelkasten note connects to an existing one, forcing real elaboration.
One or two linked notes per session compounds more value than many highlights.
Navigating leadership transitions, blind spots, and motivation as a leader
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Motivation
7
Relationships & family
5
Why StrengthsFinder beats 360s for teams without a facilitator
Two 10-minute walks a day can transform depleted motivation
Reset the relationship explicitly when managing former friends
How assumptions and inattention silently undermine your listening
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Communication
9
Deep work & focus
5
Questions longer than eight words are almost always biased.
Tuning before a conversation is what makes listening light, not hard.
Absolute words like 'always' are signals of assumptions worth surfacing.
Getting online engagement: platform strategy, coaching, and managing up
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Communication
8
Management
7
Business operating systems
6
Most internal platforms fail from missing strategy, not missing technology.
Free coaching alternatives: mastermind groups, co-mentoring, Feed Forward.
Coach up by owning the observation — not citing what departing staff said.
Conflict resolution
YouTube
How to repair trust after betrayal: Henry Cloud's framework
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Conflict resolution
9
Resilience & grit
6
Forgiveness frees you from betrayal — trust still has to be earned separately.
Your past wounds silently sabotage today's business decisions.
Reacting immediately after betrayal is the worst move a leader can make.
Cash flow management
YouTube
How proactive leadership navigates inflation and recession
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Cash flow management
9
Pricing strategy
7
B2B sales
6
Managing for cash — not earnings — is the number one inflation discipline.
Plan to become smaller: cut marginal products, customers, and facilities now.
Move on pricing early and incrementally; waiting compounds the damage.
How to run effective one-on-ones and build a feedback culture
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Communication
8
Processes & SOPs
5
Anonymous surveys reveal who is quietly planning to leave.
One-on-ones belong to the employee, not the manager.
Founders should personally conduct every exit interview.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
How to stop people coming back with the same problems
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Resilience & grit
8
Delegation
8
Giving answers triggers dopamine — leaders are literally addicted to helping
Two go-to questions break the habit without a full coaching overhaul
Telling only activates rational brain; asking creates memory and generalisation