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DIGEST | The Weekly Newsletter
Friday 30th October 2020

Happy Halloween and welcome to DIGEST.

Every week DIGEST scourers magazines, journals and blogs from around the world to bring you a curated synthesis of the most relevant career, leadership, entrepreneur and innovation thinking.

Many of you have already started iTHINK Series Two - Do You Have A Start Up In You? and we have had some great feedback. Explores startup funding with an interview with Mark Sherman Managing Director - Telstra Ventures.

Have a great week and stay safe

Crispin

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LEADERSHIP

27 October 2020

Leadership Renovation

Does your leadership need a renovation? How do you go about making changes to the way you lead without loosing credibility? Have you received feedback that your management style is causing problems with the team culture? This article looks at how leaders who recognise that they have areas to focus on improving, should proceed with […]

27 October 2020

Leadership is Communications with Clarity

The leadership competence of delivering succinct communications with clarity is extraordinarily powerful, so why do so many leaders fail to master the skill? The amygdola (or reptile brain) is hardwired to be impatient and to be somewhat negative (it is the fear centre of our brains) so if we don’t capture the interest of the […]

CAREER

27 October 2020

Finding Career Happiness

A common mistake people make in their career is believing that investing time and energy into making more money will make them greater happiness. On the whole people with more free time are happier, healthier and more productive than colleagues who put all the effort and priorities into making money. “I was justifying my choices […]

20 October 2020

Recovering From Failure

Recovering from failure, at some point in our careers, we all fail. It is how we recover from that failure that differentiates us. Failure is hard, it is ego shattering and very painful. But as Robert Kanaat writes; “failure, as much as it hurts, is a necessary evil. Failure, and the resultant pain it causes, […]

20 October 2020

Am I Talent? Its a Question of High Potential

Anyone with leadership aspirations will consider the question ‘Am I Talent’ as they progress in their career. And while it is not purely a question for leaders the nature of the question is directly related to subjective nature of how others consider and measure your performance. As a subject matter expert, with specialist skills, experience […]

ENTREPRENEUR (& STARTUP)

27 October 2020

The Start Up Pitch

In the startup pitch every venture capital fund is looking at firms that can grow, turn a profit and ultimately realise value for the investors. The considerations of a successful pitch include the market fit, the company’s business plan, as well as the quality and depth of experience of the leadership team. In this study […]

21 October 2020

Is Now The Right Time To Launch?

Is now the right time to launch your start up? It is the challenge that many entrepreneurs face, a global pandemic and global recession are challenging companies and industries all over the world but times of significant change bring significant opportunity. “Times of rapid and dramatic change can shift the tectonic plates of opportunity. “ There are numerous […]

INNOVATION

Think Like a Comedian

27 October 2020

While it doesn’t sound like the most obvious approach there are a number of tools that business leaders can take and apply from comedians. But the approach doesn’t require you to try and be funny, rather by better understanding how comedians do their job, leaders can learn techniques to be better at theirs. Comedians use […]

Hitting the Innovation Sweet Spot

27 October 2020

The innovation sweet spot is achieving the perfect combination of innovation brilliance. Alignment between the viability, desirability, feasibility and integrity. Desirability (Human) – the latent demand for this product or service. Do people really want it and will it add value Viability (Business) – can you deliver the product or service and can it scale […]

EVENT DIRECTORY

The event directory is being updated all the time, if you have an event you would like to see on the calendar please send me an email with the details.

DISTRACTION

The Godwit breaks the world record flying 12,000kms from Alaska to NZ in 224 hours

People sharing the weirdest photos they have found in online real estate listings

A soviet era seaplane that skimmed the surface at 550kph

With the US election almost on us - here is an interesting electoral college decision tree to help you understand all the possible outcomes depending on who wins each seat.

We all need some dumb Halloween stereotypes (YouTube)

"Don't just eat bacon, inhale it" The black label bacon scented mask from Hormel

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