Life's Leadership Lessons: August 7, 2025
25 essential leadership tools, 1000 ChatGPT prompts, 4 types of bad leaders, and the secret to success...this week in Life's Leadership Lessons.
We do hard things because they’re hard.
- John F. Kennedy
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25 Essential Leadership Tools
This is actually an article, but it’s too important an article for me to simply put in the “To Read” section below. Gaurav Jain (who you should follow and subscribe to) put together 25 essential frameworks that leaders should know about. I teach a lot of these in workshops and to my coaching clients. Don’t just read this, study it. Do one a week.
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ChatGPT Tutorials and Prompts
Andrew Bolis is an AI and marketing consultant. Turns out he’s also a social influencer in the world of AI. He put together a pretty comprehensive guide for ChatGPT that you should download.
✅ Download the free ChatGPT Guide with Tutorials and Prompts
📖 To Read 📖
» This is the secret to success
[the best leadership newsletter ever]
» The secret tactic of the best leaders
[16 personalities]
» When NotebookLM is better than ChatGPT
[AI disruptor]
🎧 To Listen or Watch 🎥
» The 4 types of leaders who fail
[the best leadership podcast ever]
» How to calm your anxiety
[fixable]
» Your hiring process is all wrong
[dear hr diary]
This Week’s Featured Friend: Adam J. Kurtz
» Do it anyway
» Communication is everything
» Follow Adam J. Kurtz
This Week’s Poll
» VOTE NOW!!
Last week’s poll
» Your preferred Oreo-eating strategy is… DUNK IN MILK (29%)
It’s nutso that there is so much debate about this, and every answer had almost the same number of responses. It’s also nutso that y’all don’t just bite it whole. What’s the point of dunking in milk? Do you like soggy cookies? What’s wrong with you people?
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