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 leaders can make it safe for people to share hard truths
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Communication
10
Management
7
85% of employees stay silent even when the issue feels important
Go to their turf, their time, their preferred medium — not yours
Explicitly signal you can handle bad news; don't assume they know
Balancing empathy, innovation, and career direction in leadership
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
8
Communication
7
Goal setting
5
Framing employee requests as either/or usually limits better solutions.
Make many small innovation bets before committing to a few big ones.
Two smaller career jumps beat one leap across role and industry simultaneously.
Building a personal annual action plan that actually gets done
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Goal setting
9
Productivity & habits
6
Writing vision in present tense — before it's true — drives action
Weekly plan review turns annual goals into weekly calendar decisions
Ordering your life priorities forces clarity when time runs out
How managers can become champions for justice in the workplace
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Conflict resolution
7
Silence after racial harm is complicity — not a neutral choice.
Small bystander actions outperform waiting for the perfect heroic moment.
54% of Black employees felt belonging for the first time working remotely.
Influencing peers, handling departures, and developing as a leader
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Communication
7
Agree on how to decide before deciding — it changes everything.
Silence after a firing is worse than partial, careful communication.
Flexibility beats parent-specific perks for retaining any employee.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
How environmental triggers shape behaviour and how to fight back
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Resilience & grit
8
Productivity & habits
7
Your environment almost always beats willpower — structure wins.
A two-minute daily scorecard outperforms most behaviour-change programmes.
Sustainable change requires feedback, follow-up, and coworker involvement.
How to build workplace belonging using research-backed practices
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Culture building
10
Management
8
Small belonging improvements drive outsized gains in retention and engagement
Black and Asian women score lowest on belonging — intersectionality compounds exclusion
Affinity-based connection excludes those without access to majority experiences
How to handle personal connection, performance problems, and knowledge transfer
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Communication
8
Coaching
7
Personal connection at work outperforms formal distance — ignore the naysayers.
Entrenched poor performance needs movement, not just acknowledgement.
Near-retirement employees hoard knowledge out of fear — recognition unlocks it.
Managing hybrid teams fairly: avoiding two-tier workplaces
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Remote teams
9
Management
7
Processes & SOPs
5
Proximity bias silently creates first-class and second-class employees.
Designing workflows remote-first levels the playing field for everyone.
Offline decisions made on-site routinely exclude remote team members.
How to lead and retain high performers
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Culture building
7
Hiring & recruitment
5
High performers produce 400% more yet get the least leadership attention.
Fear of not trying beats fear of failing — autonomy is non-negotiable.
Losing one high performer triggers a domino exit of their network.
How to lead your team through the four stages of development
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Conflict resolution
5
Skipping the forming stage is the costliest team leadership mistake.
Stuck teams fall into 'do-good' or 'feel-good' traps — both need storming.
Membership changes reset team development; proactive re-forming prevents regression.
Automation & tools
YouTube
Practical tools for saving time and learning more
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Automation & tools
8
Productivity & habits
7
One browser click saves articles for distraction-free weekly batch reading.
Smart Speed silently trims podcast pauses, recovering hours each month.
SaneBox learns your email habits and surfaces only what actually matters.
How to grow your leadership career: lessons from UPS
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Founder interviews
6
Tell your boss you want to advance — silence kills careers
Volunteer for every role before you have the title
Why under-projecting Alaska by 40x taught Ron to test early
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Handling pushback from difficult askers using empowered refusal
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Communication
7
Resilience & grit
5
Personal policies beat excuses — they hold five years later, excuses don't.
Walnut trees use face-to-face asks, home turf, and forced urgency to extract yes.
Assuming the future will be less busy is the bias that fills your calendar.
How to navigate difficult conversations by separating intent from impact
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Communication
9
Conflict resolution
8
Intent and impact are separate topics — conflating them derails every conversation.
Explaining your good intentions shifts focus away from harm you caused.
Staying curious instead of defensive is what earns you the right to be heard.