Build resilience through rupture and repair in relationships

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha — yap-aliza-pressman · Young and Profiting with Hala Taha

Vet the GC as rigorously as the GC vets you to protect cash flow and culture

Blue Collar Business Ep 32: Dirt to Dollars, Excavating Success with Clay Hudspeth (HudX) · Sy Kirby

Record leadership talks delivered live to field crews and distribute via podcast so the CEO voice reaches every truck, every day

Owned and Operated: He Built a $100M HVAC Business (Chad Peterman, Peterman Brothers) · John Wilson

Build living culture through deliberate hiring and repeated leader behavior

UpFlip Ep222: College Hunks $300M/yr (Nick Friedman) — The UpFlip Podcast · The UpFlip Podcast

Establish purpose, vision, and people before building any operational system

UpFlip Ep222: College Hunks $300M/yr (Nick Friedman) — The UpFlip Podcast · The UpFlip Podcast

Eliminate service failures by defining non-negotiables that protect every touchpoint.

UpFlip Ep222: College Hunks $300M/yr (Nick Friedman) — The UpFlip Podcast · The UpFlip Podcast

Every CEO directive has an implicit asterisk: do it, as long as it still makes sense to you.

Daniel Lubetzky on School of Hard Knocks (full episode) · School of Hard Knocks Podcast

Quarterly community-giving program as both ritual and culture-binding mechanism.

Patrick Terry on School of Hard Knocks (full episode) · School of Hard Knocks Podcast

Create a practice space where embodied learning, peers, and a teacher develop leadership

The Leadership Dojo: Build Your Foundation as an Exemplary Leader · Richard Strozzi-Heckler

Treat your marketing team as part publisher — build a systematic content production engine

Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs · Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah

Build teams where people speak up without fear of punishment, ridicule, or career damage.

The Most Powerful Predictor of Team Success · Rafael Chiuzi

Four communication patterns that predict relationship breakdown — and the antidotes that replace them.

Relationship Advice from 50+ Years of Marriage · John and Julie Gottman

Make your contributions visible inside and outside the organisation so promotion becomes obvious, not argued

How To Get A Pay Rise: Career Coach's Proven System · Yota Trom

Teams with better cultures report more errors — they're not making more, they're hiding fewer.

Do We Need To Change Our Minds About Index Funds? · Tim Harford

Build cohesive teams by overcoming five cascading dysfunctions from trust to results through a hierarchical pyramid of team behaviors

Lencioni Five Dysfunctions of a Team · Patrick Lencioni

Invest in employee happiness and growth first — productivity and profit follow as natural consequences

Why Happiness is the New Productivity · Vishen Lakhiani

Build a workplace where people come for the growth, stay for the culture, and thrive because of the meaning

World's Greatest Workplace · Vishen Lakhiani

The office is the last place people go when they actually need to get work done

Why Work Doesn't Happen at Work · Jason Fried

Treat distraction as a symptom of organizational dysfunction, not individual weakness

Nir Eyal on How to Be Indistractable - Brainfluence Podcast · Nir Eyal

Combine high demands with high support to build gritty cultures

Angela Duckworth - Grit The Power of Passion and Perseverance at Talks at Google · Angela Duckworth

Based on a large Accenture-sponsored study of 150 specially selected high-potential leaders from around the world,...

Coaching For Leaders - Full series · Marshall Goldsmith

Trust has three drivers—find your wobble and fix it

How to Build (and Rebuild) Trust · Frances Frei

Philosophy, Process, People, and Problem Solving as the foundation of operational excellence

The Toyota Way · Jeffrey K. Liker

Build a profitable sustainable business by rejecting growth-at-all-costs and embracing intentional constraints

Jason Fried Interview | The Tim Ferriss Show (Podcast) · Jason Fried

Engineer learning environments that make equality inevitable

The power of believing that you can improve · Carol Dweck

Build winning teams by weeding out takers and protecting generous givers

Are you a giver or a taker? · Adam Grant

Diagnose and upgrade your organization's culture through five tribal stages

Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization · Dave Logan, John King, and Halee Fischer-Wright

Create the environmental conditions where breakthrough ideas naturally emerge

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation · Steven Johnson

Uncover your personal or organizational purpose through structured story-gathering

Find Your Why · Simon Sinek, David Mead, Peter Docker

Leaders must own everything in their world - there is no one else to blame

Jocko Podcast 114 w/ Leif Babin - How to Lead and Win. · Jocko Willink & Leif Babin

Close the gap between organizational values and daily practices to re-engage teams

Daring Greatly · Brené Brown

Eliminate organizational friction through crystal-clear commitments

The Great CEO Within · Matt Mochary

Inherited cultural patterns silently shape success and failure

Outliers: The Story of Success · Malcolm Gladwell

Predict failure before it happens by imagining the project has already failed

Shreyas Doshi on Pre-Mortems, the LNO Framework, Three Levels of Product Work, and Strategy vs. Execution · Shreyas Doshi

Leadership is a behavioral choice about who you protect, not a rank you hold

Why good leaders make you feel safe | Simon Sinek | TED · Simon Sinek

Assemble a team of trusted critics who push you through honest feedback

Adam Grant - The Man Who Does Everything · Adam Grant

Get one percent better every day and the compound effect transforms everything

James Clear - 1 Percent Better Every Day · James Clear

Every behavior is driven by one of six universal human needs — identify yours to understand your patterns

Why We Do What We Do | TED Talks | Tony Robbins · Tony Robbins

Replace status meetings with written updates -- save 8 hours by writing for 8 minutes

Status Meetings Are the Scourge · Jason Fried

Givers are at both the bottom and top of every success metric—the key is weeding out takers

Are You a Giver or a Taker · Adam Grant

Care personally AND challenge directly—most managers only do one

Radical Candor Framework · Kim Scott

Ask 'What did you fail at this week?' — and be disappointed if the answer is nothing

Spanx: Sara Blakely · Sara Blakely

Master self, story, philosophy, and team to achieve lasting greatness

The Diary of a CEO: The 33 Laws of Business and Life · Steven Bartlett

Build trust before crisis or it will not exist during crisis

Simon Sinek: Opens Up About His Struggle with Loneliness, Love, Dating! · Simon Sinek

Put your people first and they will put everything first

The Key to Impactful Leadership - Simon Sinek · Simon Sinek

Shame says 'I am bad'; guilt says 'I did something bad' -- the difference matters enormously

Listening to Shame · Brene Brown

Any idea goes, but you must defend it with evidence and logic

Rigorous Thinking: No Lazy Thinking · Wes Kao

Replace traditional marketing with engineering-driven distribution

Growth Hacker is the New VP Marketing · Andrew Chen

Teams fail from the bottom up: fix trust before anything else

The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team with Patrick Lencioni · Patrick Lencioni

People describe reality from their position, not from an objective center

Useful Not True · Derek Sivers