23 June 2025
This week's additions focus on mindset, strategy, and leadership, with new digests from Rick Fawcett - Expert EOS Implementer, Ryan Deiss, and TK Kader. Highlights include People rise when they feel believed in, not just praised Quarterly sprints beat annual planning — build 90-day key initiatives instead
Showing 47 digests for 23 June 2025.
How leader belief shapes team performance: the Pygmalion Effect
Rick Fawcett - Expert EOS Implementer
June 29, 2025
Management
9
Identity & self-belief
6
People rise when they feel believed in, not just praised
Low expectations hurt performance just as much as high ones help
Your unspoken doubts leak through — conviction is what counts
Automation & tools
YouTube
How to use Notion as a company operating system
Ryan Deiss
June 29, 2025
Automation & tools
9
Business operating systems
7
Communication
5
Quarterly sprints beat annual planning — build 90-day key initiatives instead
Every playbook needs a named owner or it will go stale
Team pages filter company goals so each team sees only their work
GTM strategy to scale a SaaS business from $1M to $3M ARR
TK Kader
June 29, 2025
Market research
8
Sales systems & CRM
7
Processes & SOPs
5
Why the tactics that built $1M ARR reliably stall at $1.5M
Diagnose people and process first — product is rarely the problem
Focused ICP and single repeatable message unlock the next stage
Why your business has stopped growing and how to fix it
KeyPersonOfInfluence
June 29, 2025
Niche selection
9
Branding
8
Business models
7
The old product-and-location business model is now dead
90% of your value comes from being in front of the right person
Personal brand beats business brand in the digital economy
How professional brand namers create iconic names like Sonos, Azure and Blackberry
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
June 29, 2025
Branding
9
Case studies
5
If your team is comfortable with the name, you don't have it yet.
Every letter carries a vibration — V is alive, B is reliable, Z is noisy.
Start with behaviour and experience, not a word — the name follows.
Teaching employees basic investing is a leadership edge
Cameron Herold
June 28, 2025
Culture building
8
Retention & loyalty
5
Starting at 20 beats starting at 30 — even investing 3x less
Guarantee employee principal back to eliminate the fear of investing
Caring about employees' financial futures builds loyalty no perk can match
Conflict resolution
YouTube
A four-pillar framework for turning conflict into connection
Dr. Grace Lee
June 28, 2025
Conflict resolution
9
Resilience & grit
6
Avoiding conflict or defending your position both backfire.
See the neutral situation behind each person's one-sided story.
Name the underlying need, not the neglect, to build forward.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
The hidden challenges of freelance copywriting and how to survive them
Matthew Volkwyn
June 27, 2025
Resilience & grit
9
Outsourcing & delegation
6
Burnout hits almost every copywriter — fitness and boundaries are the fix.
Reliable client acquisition solves most dark sides at once.
Imposter syndrome fades fastest inside a community of working peers.
Weekly CEO communication as the core culture-reinforcement routine
Scaling Up with Verne Harnish
June 27, 2025
Communication
9
Culture building
8
Silence from the CEO makes employees invent their own narrative
Weekly message — email, voicemail, or video — is enough to hold culture
UWM scaled 200 to 9,000 employees on a daily 90-second CEO video
Seven people skills that turn awkward interactions into real connections
Dan Martell
June 27, 2025
Communication
9
Community building
6
Listen 70% of the time — most people talk themselves out of connection.
A compliment only lands when you first state a fact they believe.
Connecting others to each other is value anyone can offer immediately.
AI tools & automation
YouTube
Why coding skills still matter in the age of AI and vibe coding
Silicon Valley Girl
June 27, 2025
AI tools & automation
9
Iteration & feedback loops
7
Long-term planning
6
Vibe coding has a complexity ceiling — scaling requires real code skills
AI access is equal for everyone, so coding skill remains the differentiator
More AI means more code, not fewer developers — backlogs are growing
Community building
YouTube
How Figma grew from zero ad spend to a $12.5B valuation
EO
June 27, 2025
Community building
9
Growth hacking
8
Product-market fit
6
Figma grew to $12.5B with zero paid advertising spend.
Unscalable tactics — personal bug fixes, meetups — drove real word-of-mouth at scale.
Product first, tight niche, community voices: the brand followed, never led.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Ten Stoic quotes on improvement, perspective, and resilience
The Daily Stoic
June 27, 2025
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
6
Why crossing a bad habit early beats fighting it later
Every obstacle carries an opportunity to practice a virtue
You can choose whose intellectual tradition you inherit
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
Why "perfect" sales hires fail and how to build a context-fit hiring model
The Science of Scaling
June 27, 2025
Hiring & recruitment
10
Sales systems & CRM
6
Industry experience is a poor hiring filter; selling skills predict success.
Coachability, not curiosity or intelligence, correlated most with top performance at HubSpot.
Role plays reveal coachability; progressive improvement across interviews is the key signal.
AI strategy & adoption
YouTube
How consumer AI will evolve: product, distribution, and emotional relationships
Y Combinator
June 27, 2025
AI strategy & adoption
9
Product-market fit
7
Growth hacking
6
AI is shifting consumers from attention-based to relationship-based products
Great products beat marketing tricks — there is no distribution shortcut
Health and personal security are the highest-opportunity categories for consumer AI