The best Leadership newsletters

Essays on product management, organizational dynamics and the workplace by a long-time product practitioner. Readers get reflective, nuanced takes on causality, feature factories and what companies can and cannot offer people.

Steve Magness, a performance coach and author, writes about how people sustain excellence in sport, work and life, drawing on coaching experience and psychology and physiology research. Issues pair concrete stories and coaching principles with practical takeaways on mindset, culture and technology.

Glasp's newsletter curates articles on AI, productivity, and knowledge sharing, with issues mixing book essays on creativity and management, original research reports, and historical stories about innovation. Readers get digestible takeaways on working better, building teams, and the human side of AI development.

Aaron Renn's essays examine American leadership, civic institutions, and the cultural foundations of national life, drawing on history and recent books. Readers get critiques of elite formation, reviews of works on the online right, and observations on the decline of selfless civic leadership in cities.

A doctor writes practical essays on career growth, leadership, and mental wellbeing for medical professionals. Readers get frank, personal advice on influence without authority, navigating hierarchy, and the mind's need to create, consume and rest.

Perspectives offers personal essays that draw on the author's experience in tech, leadership and parenthood. Recent issues cover mentoring and career growth, the risk of outsourcing thinking to AI, and how expertise is built through apprenticeship.

A personal blog on scaling companies, covering product management, startup leadership and how to adopt AI at work. Posts mix first-hand experience from places like Grubhub with frameworks and findings from interviews with product managers.

A weekly newsletter on product management that argues for specific practices around estimation, team processes and backlog refinement. Issues pair opinionated arguments with vivid analogies and practical frameworks.

Commentary on AI, technology, leadership and capital in architecture, engineering and construction (AEC), written from the perspective of a 25-year industry veteran. Issues mix original essays on cross-company collaboration and AI use with podcast episode write-ups featuring industry guests.

A newsletter offering practical advice on managing up, executive communication, and succeeding as a high performer at work. Issues include frameworks, principles and examples, plus a curated archive of top posts, and it is moving to an ad hoc publishing schedule.

A newsletter and companion podcast by a former four-time British Ambassador, featuring interviews with senior diplomats and officials about leading and working in diplomacy. Readers get episode summaries with timestamps, short diplomatic news items, and a paid tier with extra guides and behind-the-scenes material.

A weekly newsletter by David Pereira offering opinionated, experience-based perspectives on product management, including podcast conversations with practitioners. It pushes back on AI hype and shortcut culture in favor of judgment, stakeholder relationships and real problem solving.

A weekly newsletter on executive leadership and career growth, mixing anonymized executive coaching case studies, practical career tactics and occasional guest posts. Readers get advice on managing difficult bosses, building executive presence and advancing into senior roles in the AI era.

A practical newsletter for engineering leaders covering management craft, from handling risky large-scale changes to staying close to the code and the user. Issues mix candid anecdotes from a real team with arguments about how the EM role is shifting toward hands-on technical involvement.

A newsletter from a former Atlassian marketing chief, now an operating partner at Andreessen Horowitz, covering marketing and leadership for executives at fast-growing tech companies. Issues mix personal announcements, marketing commentary such as ad roundups, and practical case studies on using AI in marketing workflows.

A product and growth executive writes about connecting product work to revenue, product-led growth, and using AI practically rather than chasing hype. Issues mix operator experience with leadership and management reflections.

A tech product leader shares personal lessons on career growth, managing people, and product principles, written as letters to her past self. Readers get practical, reflective advice on job decisions and scaling in tech, plus a full catalog of past posts.

Summarizes academic management and leadership research from business schools into plain-language breakdowns covering the question, methodology and findings. Readers get practical takeaways from studies on topics like team cohesion, reflection and employee retention.

Daily short essays on leadership, each readable in about a minute, covering topics like building credibility by association and when to act on difficult problems. The newsletter gives practical, research-referenced takeaways for managers and leaders in business or everyday social settings.

Short two-minute readings twice a week that apply universal laws and psychology to money, business and relationships. Issues combine anecdotes, research references and practical principles, plus a weekly podcast-style Friday Spark.

Robert Glazer's weekly leadership newsletter shares short essays on delegation, letting go, and bravery, often drawing on interviews from his Elevate Podcast and his coaching work. Readers get research-backed frameworks and practical leadership advice aimed at helping managers lead better.

Shreyas Doshi shares short candid career videos, private playlists and essays on product leadership and career decisions, often as lead-ins to his paid seminar. The sample pairs promotional resource announcements with a reflective essay on the 'Antithesis Principle', which argues for counter-intuitive ways of thinking about learning and influence.

A business and mindset newsletter offering frameworks on high standards, survival versus winning habits, and reducing defensiveness to boost performance and income. Issues mix promotional calls to paid subscription with short motivational essays and lists of quotes.

Scarlet Ink is a career and leadership newsletter from a former Amazon general manager and tech director, offering advice on tech industry work. The recent issues in the sample are mostly notices that the newsletter has moved from Substack to scarletink.com, with little substantive content visible.