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.
Taming workplace incivility: a leader's guide to civility culture
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Communication
6
Hidden belief systems — not bad people — enable workplace incivility
47% of workers deliberately reduce effort after a single rude incident
Leaders must trust their gut discomfort before the culture silences it
Four phrases that help others feel seen and heard
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Communication
9
Culture building
6
Saying "I don't know" makes leaders more credible, not less
Resist fixing — asking "tell me more" builds real confidence
Curiosity toward what frightens you replaces caricature with person
How to build stage presence that keeps audiences engaged
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Public speaking
10
Identity & self-belief
6
You have 99 unearned seconds — scripted openers are non-negotiable.
Small daily interactions are rehearsal stages most presenters waste.
Closing summaries signal failure — end on one takeaway, nothing more.
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
How to hire and develop ideal team players using three core virtues
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Hiring & recruitment
10
Culture building
8
Management
6
Humble, hungry, and smart: why all three virtues must coexist
Promoting high performers who violate values destroys team performance
Structured sequential interviews with persistent probing beat standard hiring
Practical employee engagement using Management 3.0 principles
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
10
Processes & SOPs
6
Managing people directly means the system already failed upstream.
Optimal learning requires half your experiments to fail.
Celebrating only successes silently kills innovation culture.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
How to identify and clarify your personal core values
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Management
6
More than five core values means you don't really have any.
Values drive decisions before you consciously know what they are.
Six questions reveal your values through pride, anger, and flow.
Mental health & wellbeing
YouTube
Practical strategies for building lasting happiness at work and in life
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Mental health & wellbeing
8
Productivity & habits
8
Physical & cognitive performance
6
Happiness comes first — success follows, not the other way around.
Retirement spikes depression; ikigai beats a finish line.
Two minutes of morning prompts reshape the other 998 waking minutes.
Managing up, career ambition, and leading without direction
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Delegation
7
Identity & self-belief
6
Staying silent about career goals costs you information you need.
A checked-out boss is an invitation to lead, not a blocker.
Facilitation and leadership are distinct skills — don't conflate them.
Three keys to forming effective business alliances
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Business models
9
Communication
6
Partner with companies in your space but serving different customers
Both sides must identify a concrete, measurable win upfront
Treat the alliance like a paying client or it quietly dies
How to become more coach-like as a leader
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Communication
7
Taming your advice monster is the single biggest coaching unlock
Fierce love: fully on their side, holding outcomes lightly
Silence after a good question is a measure of success
Founder interviews
YouTube
How one documentary filmmaker changed California's domestic violence laws
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Founder interviews
9
Resilience & grit
7
Vision & mission
7
Inmates funded the film that eventually freed them.
Eight years of rejection before 2.5 million viewers and two new laws.
Why your conviction matters more than funding or connections.
Handling hostility, peer leadership, and remote team development
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Delegation
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Processes & SOPs
5
Scarcity mindset — not skill gaps — is what stalls peer leaders.
Silence and detached observation defuse hostile clients more than words.
Tie team development to your next metrics, not the ones you're already hitting.
How to collaborate across organizations to solve big problems
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
8
Business operating systems
6
Outsourcing & delegation
5
Half of organizations claiming to collaborate never actually join a coalition.
Starting a new nonprofit usually drains resources from ones already doing the work.
Private-sector efficiency instincts must be set aside for multi-sector trust to form.
How to improve organisational culture: assessments, values, and storytelling
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Culture building
9
Communication
5
Withholding survey results destroys trust faster than never surveying at all.
Values must be backed by incentives — not just posted on walls.
Storytelling, not mandates, is how values travel across locations.
Leadership Q&A: meetings, mergers, career growth, and education
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
8
Communication
6
Identity & self-belief
5
Three questions that make standing meetings worth keeping
When to push back in a merger — and when to stay quiet
Why goal-setting training backfires when employees don't set goals