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 a distillery pivoted to hand sanitizer during COVID-19
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Case studies
10
Pivoting
7
Delegation
6
Outsold all of 2019 in one month by switching to hand sanitizer
Shared distilling chemistry made an overnight product pivot possible
Discovering you can lead as yourself removes a heavy burden
Deep work & focus
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How to build a deep work practice: Cal Newport's framework
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Deep work & focus
10
Processes & SOPs
5
Deep work is a trainable skill — almost no one is developing it.
Tolerating boredom is weight training for your concentration.
Three moves start the habit: train, protect time, signal commitment.
How to start coaching someone using the FROM framework
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Delegation
9
Management
7
Motivation
5
Most leaders jump to teaching before understanding who they're coaching.
FROM: four questions that reveal goals, reality, obstacles, and motivation.
One in three high-potential employees aren't giving full effort at work.
How to use power responsibly by understanding its invisible impact
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Communication
7
Your power is already felt — whether or not you intend it.
Framing power as responsibility produces measurably better leaders.
Ask people how they felt — don't reconstruct it from your own head.
Coaching, accountability, and wisdom: answers to listener questions
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Communication
8
Management
7
Identity & self-belief
5
Rules and incentives breed mediocrity — practical wisdom fills the gap.
Accountability fails at step one: unclear expectations, not missing consequences.
Coaching across cultures means meeting people where they are, not where you are.
Resilience & grit
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Building resilience by learning to sit with failure and discomfort
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Resilience & grit
10
Identity & self-belief
8
Successful people accumulate the most failures, not the most successes.
Three questions dissolve catastrophising: deathbed, control, and story.
Resilience is a learnable practice — discomfort never fully disappears.
How leaders derail: five archetypes and how to interrupt them
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Resilience & grit
5
Five psychological archetypes explain why capable leaders derail.
Introspection and truth tellers are the antidote to all five traps.
You cannot lead others before you have learned to lead yourself.
How to reduce bias in feedback conversations
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Communication
7
Culture building
5
Praising women with superlatives while scoring them average sends false signals.
Calling on a woman first in a meeting enables equal participation from all women.
One phrase cuts perceptions of female aggressiveness by nearly 30 percent.
Founder interviews
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Dave Stachowiak on building a leadership podcast from scratch
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Founder interviews
9
Communication
7
Identity & self-belief
6
Fear delayed the podcast launch by nearly two years
Surveying listeners revealed the assumed audience was completely wrong
Nervousness drops when focus shifts from self to serving others
How to be a better ally at work for women of color
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Culture building
9
Communication
7
Allies rank speaking out as key; women of color want opportunity advocacy.
True allyship happens behind the scenes, not in public gestures.
Invite missing voices to meetings — that one act moves careers.
Work-life balance
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Strategizing energy use at work for better leadership results
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Work-life balance
9
Management
8
Working in 90-minute sprints beats grinding 12-hour days
Sleep matters more than exercise or nutrition for energy
Unattractive leadership roles block succession — energy modeling fixes it
Productivity & habits
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A practical weekly review system for consistent goal progress
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Productivity & habits
9
Goal setting
8
Processes & SOPs
5
A 30-minute Sunday review prevents an entire week of reactive drift.
Pick three flagged priorities — more than five means none will get done.
Reviewing habits weekly and focusing on one underperformer drives real change.
Work-life balance
YouTube
Five gears: a framework for being present and productive
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Work-life balance
9
Productivity & habits
7
Communication
5
Wrong gear at wrong time — not bad intent — kills relationships
Third gear (small talk) is where all trust and business begins
Finger signs let teams shift gears without drama or lectures
Navigating workplace politics with allies, opponents, and adversaries
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Communication
9
Identity & self-belief
6
Your opponent who disagrees is your greatest asset, not a threat.
Trust and agreement are separate axes — confusing them is the core mistake.
Adversaries you can't reach are best released, not converted.
Listening as leadership work: the four levels explained
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Communication
10
Identity & self-belief
5
Most leaders are stuck at partial listening without realising it
Powerful listening surfaces what people aren't saying aloud
Listening selectively but deliberately beats trying to listen powerfully always