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 steal the show in every presentation
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Public speaking
8
Copywriting
5
Deep preparation makes you more spontaneous, not less authentic.
Every pitch must get three silent yes answers from the audience.
Consequences before rewards — address downsides to disarm resistance first.
How to speak up: research-backed tactics for finding your voice
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Communication
9
Resilience & grit
7
Management
6
You are usually the one silencing yourself, not the room.
Deliberate practice — not repetition — is what builds the speaking-up muscle.
Reframe your boss as a resource for your goal, not a power threat.
How organizational culture shapes coaching and leadership
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Culture building
10
Management
6
Most organizations reward behaviors that contradict their stated values.
Schein's three lenses reveal what culture actually does, not what it claims.
Some cultures cannot change — knowing which saves coaching time and energy.
Admitting you're wrong quickly: why leaders must do it
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Communication
9
Resilience & grit
7
Unacknowledged mistakes freeze organisations — no one dares raise them.
Admitting errors publicly signals that risk-taking is safe.
Share past failures with struggling reports to rebuild their momentum.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
How to find meaningful work through declaration and experimentation
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Identity & self-belief
8
Goal setting
7
Management
5
Clarity comes from declaring priorities, not waiting for inspiration
Low-cost experiments let you test career hypotheses before committing
Managers who support career experiments retain people more effectively
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Five ways to avoid living with regret
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Communication
6
Lessons from 30 funerals: what the dying wished they had done.
Listening without giving answers builds lasting confidence in others.
Scheduling people like meetings prevents the regret of missed connection.
Motivation, managing up, and mentoring veterans: Q&A with Bonni Stachowiak
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Delegation
6
Asking 'what motivates you?' rarely works — observe instead
Triangulation from senior leaders is a system problem, not personal
Help veterans translate military skills into business language
Career Q&A: Moving up, across cultures, and into new roles
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
8
Communication
7
Resilience & grit
6
Solve a visible organisational problem to get noticed for promotion.
Cognitive load kills cross-cultural presentations — cut slide text ruthlessly.
Lacking deep functional expertise can make you a better team leader.
Four rules for personal budgeting that actually work
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Personal finance
9
Relationships & family
6
Productivity & habits
5
Assign every dollar a job before spending — scarcity forces real priorities
Plan for irregular costs monthly so 'emergencies' stop blindsiding you
Changing your budget isn't failing — it's what budgeting actually is
Cross-cultural influence: reading signals and adapting your style
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Communication
9
Management
7
Why Americans are explicit everywhere except negative feedback
Cognitive vs affective trust — and why emerging markets need both
Subtle cultural gaps cause more failures than obvious ones
The truth about performance management: coaching over appraisals
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Delegation
5
Combining pay decisions and coaching in one conversation undermines both.
Managers can coach effectively in 10 minutes — no extra time required.
No performance system is ever finished; continuous iteration is the model.
How leaders can help people show up as their whole selves at work
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Culture building
8
Hiding behind a professional mask cuts off your energy and creativity too.
Leaders who show vulnerability are the ones everyone wants to work for.
Equal access to power is not the same as equal ability to claim it.
How Microsoft built a coaching culture across a global organisation
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Delegation
10
Management
8
Communication
7
Coaching as a daily manager behaviour, not an executive perk
Why 86% of graduates stayed engaged weeks after the course ended
Choosing the wrong conversation type — coaching vs teaching — derails confidence
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
How to recognise and become a remarkable person
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Hiring & recruitment
6
Culture building
5
Passions are developed through sampling, not found in a single moment.
The path to remarkable outcomes starts with deliberately small steps.
A growth mindset fails inside a fixed mindset organisation.
What search dogs teach leaders about volunteer engagement
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Motivation
6
Autonomy isn't a perk here — it's operationally required in the field
People self-select out if they need structure; the right ones stay
Catch people doing things right — positive reinforcement preserves progress