4 November 2024
This week's additions focus on leadership, strategy, and founder stories, with new digests from Rob Walling, Ryan Deiss, and TK Kader. Highlights include Imposter syndrome hits at every stage, not just the beginning. A CEO's real job is to do less while the team produces more
Showing 41 digests for 4 November 2024.
Business operating systems
YouTube
How Interim Healthcare used EOS to grow and build accountability
EOS Worldwide
November 5, 2024
Business operating systems
10
Case studies
8
Hiring & recruitment
5
Hiring to core values is non-negotiable when staff enter clients' homes
An external implementer unlocks hard conversations family businesses avoid
EOS replaced vague hopes with a 90-day, 1-, 3-, and 10-year plan
Resilience & grit
YouTube
What separates real entrepreneurs from people who just talk about it
GaryVee
November 5, 2024
Resilience & grit
8
Identity & self-belief
6
Social media
5
Blaming customers is the single worst trait an entrepreneur can have.
Social media skill bar has risen sharply — 2015 tactics no longer cut it.
Continuous gratitude practice, not hype, is the real daily routine.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Don't let bad times make you a bad person: Stoic advice from Seneca
The Daily Stoic
November 5, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Productivity & habits
6
Bad times don't remove your choice to remain decent
Seneca's euthymia: clarity on what's yours to control
Falling short of your ideals beats having none
How a copywriter reached six figures: habits, mindset, and craft
Matthew Volkwyn
November 4, 2024
Copywriting
9
Prospecting & outreach
7
Productivity & habits
6
Eight months of zero income before the first retainer — what that sacrifice looks like
Paying strangers $100 to interview them unlocked a $100k client
Why AI is a skill-killer for beginners, and what to do instead
How to run highly effective meetings at every level
Cameron Herold
November 4, 2024
Management
9
Processes & SOPs
7
Bad meetings stem from never training employees on meeting basics.
End meetings five minutes early — it eliminates chronic lateness entirely.
Six distinct meeting types every company needs, from daily huddle to annual planning.
From command and control to trust and inspire: beliefs that shift leadership
Coaching for Leaders
November 4, 2024
Management
9
Identity & self-belief
6
92% of organisations are still stuck in enlightened command and control.
Inspiration lights a fire within; motivation just keeps adding fuel.
Treating people according to their potential causes them to rise to it.
Long-term planning
YouTube
Four rules billionaires use to make failure near-impossible
Dan Martell
November 4, 2024
Long-term planning
9
Goal setting
7
Risk management
6
Sales, networking, leadership, and vision are the highest-leverage foundational skills
Split any windfall 50/50: boring safe assets and high-risk bets
Short-term generosity and a 10-year horizon beat chasing quick wins
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Five simple protocols for improving focus immediately
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
November 4, 2024
Deep work & focus
9
Productivity & habits
6
Processes & SOPs
5
Five actionable focus protocols that work from day one.
Why focusing less — not more — builds lasting momentum.
Producing physical artifacts prevents half-finished thinking.
CEO lessons from 20 years in the solar industry
EO
November 4, 2024
Case studies
9
Pivoting
8
Management
7
Selling off 120 people overnight to survive a margin collapse
Price backwards from willingness to pay, not from your forecast
Your job as CEO is building the environment, not being the star
Founder interviews
YouTube
From restaurant CEO to EOS implementer: one entrepreneur's leap
EOS Worldwide
November 4, 2024
Founder interviews
10
Business operating systems
7
Work-life balance
6
Feeling like an outsider in his own family forced a total career reset.
Six restaurant successes, one failure — all traced back to core focus drift.
The EOS life is a byproduct of calendar discipline, not ambition.
How Matt Meeker built Bark from a dog toy box to a dog airline
How I Built This with Guy Raz
November 4, 2024
Case studies
9
Niche selection
8
Bootstrapping
7
Why staying dogs-only for a decade was the real competitive moat
How prepayment tricks funded inventory with almost zero capital
Burning $194M a year — and turning it around in two years