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Jen Bergren’s Weekly Newsletter · Aug 3, 2026

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I don’t have any personal updates to share, so let’s move on to the curated resources!

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  • Nicole Pereira writes that we’ve optimized for operational speed, but in the process, we completely gutted the social glue that keeps teams sane when things break.

  • Ragen Dodson writes about how toxic CEOs love measuring everything except the cost of their own behavior

  • Mike Rizzo writes that when a leader can’t read the work, they read the room. And the room is exactly where a lot of the best operations practitioners get marked down.

  • Lavinia Mehedințu asks: Are we too obsessed with making learning feel fun and easy?

  • Sarah Rilling writes that most companies have a talent problem; they have a clarity problem.

  • Jazz Carr writes that a robust role-based learning path isn’t built in a day.

  • Ashley Heihn and Jacki Leahy share a few ways to approach gathering and sharing reviews that work

  • Elay Cohen writes that revenue teams are drowning in disconnected knowledge, making consistent execution nearly impossible.

  • Clara Ma shares 7 Signs That You’re a Chief of Staff (even if you don’t have the title)

  • Amy McClain writes that the problem wasn’t the training. The problem was that we hadn’t equipped managers to reinforce it.

  • Rosalyn Santa Elena writes that Operational rigor…These are two words that separate good RevOps teams from great ones 📝

  • Chris Toplack writes about misconceptions about what training and enablement represent

  • Aušrinė Keršanskaitė writes how even if the COO title doesn’t exist at a company, the work still does

  • Lisa Lie writes that everyone says they want a development plan at work. The funny thing is, a lot of people are waiting for someone else to hand it to them.

  • Molly Graham writes that one of the most powerful tools in leading teams is making things easy to remember.

  • Nikkole Wharton-Roberts writes that organizations don’t have a change management problem; they have an execution design problem

  • Fiona Simpson writes that there are 5 stages of adoption, and almost every rollout stops at stage 2

  • Dr. Alaina Szlachta writes that data is not emotional. But choosing to ignore it? That’s very emotional.

  • Katie Burke shares general rules for employee feedback, regardless of your size and stage

  • Rebecca Courtney shares The Facilitation Inspiration Library

  • Elena Verna writes about how valuable knowledge is trapped inside companies. And how that inspired her to start sharing information online📝

  • Mike Rizzo writes about the part of Marketing Operations you can teach — and the part you have to live

  • Gustavo Razzetti writes that You Don’t Manage Behavior. You Manage Intent. Why we misjudge our colleagues’ intentions, and a simple practice to see them clearly.

  • Bonnie Timms Hagemann writes that The Learning Curve Isn’t Supposed to Flatten at the Top

  • Tom McDowall writes that Practice Needs Line Managers

  • Colette Molteni and Craig Mattson write that you should Stop Arguing Your Case. Start Holding the Question. Communication that actually moves organizations

  • Jay Fuchs writes that Silence (not infrastructure) kills sales-marketing feedback

  • Greg Meyer writes about the atomic unit of organizational learning. Most team updates are receipts. The ones that record what you expected become experiments — the only kind you can learn from.

  • Jess Almlie writes that Learning & Development’s Engagement Problem is Bigger Than Design

  • David C. Baker writes about what that CMO really thinks...and what that means for you

  • JA Westenberg writes that Nobody Wants Your Newsletter. You Should Write it Anyway.

  • Nia Martinez writes about shifting from Courses to Capabilities: How to Build a Talent Strategy That Actually Endures

  • Saul Chirume writes about The Myth of Hitting the Ground Running 🚢

  • Zoom shares a Webinar audience behavior report

  • Karl Sakas writes that you built a leadership team. Why are you still the bottleneck?

  • Leah Ruppanner writes about The Invisible Work Draining Your Best Employees in Harvard Business Review (3 free articles a month)

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