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DIGEST | The Weekly Newsletter
Friday 6th November 2020

Hello and welcome to DIGEST its beginning to feel a bit like summer (at least for those of us here in the Southern Hemisphere) and while we await the results of the US election we have a usual collection of leadership, career, innovation and startup content.

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.

This week we have a new episode of our podcast - iTHINK Series Two - Do You Have A Start Up In You? In this episode we meet the amazing Maria MacNamara, CEO of Advance the organisation connecting Australians to the world.

Have a great week and stay safe

Crispin

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LEADERSHIP

5 November 2020

Culture Trends for 21

Consultancy O.C. Tanner have analysed and studied the Culture Trends for 2021 and produced a report on the top five culture trends that organisations need to get ready for to help their employees thrive. TREND # 1 – Emerging from crisis, companies focus on culture as companies around the world return to the workplace after […]

5 November 2020

The Magic Ingredient for Teams - Cognitive Diversity

Search on the term Cognitive Diversity in Teams and you will find hundreds of scholarly articles on the topic in journals, as well as editorial articles in magazines from all over the world. So what is cognitive diversity and why is it a magical ingredient for teams? Highly diverse teams bring a wealth of thinking, […]

4 November 2020

Navigating Extreme Uncertainty - The New Normal

Extreme Uncertainty reflects the length of time and the magnitude of impact of the crisis and it is becoming the new normal for management. Around the globe leaders have learned to deal with various types of crisis, they come in some standard ways, natural disasters (such as earthquakes, fires, floods, cyclones, hurricanes and tornadoes), economic […]

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 […]

CAREER

5 November 2020

How Much is Enough - Time and Money

One of the first lessons taught to MBA students is ‘The Time Value of Money’ but the question is more personal when you consider the impact of money on your life. How much money is enough? How much time do I need to work? It is a divisive question that comes down to how you […]

5 November 2020

Preparing For Disappointment

Preparing for disappointment, it’s not something you want to think about at the beginning but for some it can become overwhelming, so how do you strike the right balance? It is something that we all face, preparing, waiting, hoping and finally bracing ourselves for the chance we will not get what ever the big opportunity […]

ENTREPRENEUR (& STARTUP)

4 November 2020

Startup Paradoxes

Silicon Valley is world famous for being the birthplace to many start ups, most of the US’s venture capital goes to firms based in the valley but many fail as they struggle to grow and the process weeds out the best ideas and the strongest businesses from the rest. Silicon Valley has access to talent […]

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 […]

DISTRACTION

A sidewalk collapses in The Bronx and a man ends up in a sinkhole covered by RATS!!!

The National Wildlife Federation holds an annual photography awards and they are amazing

Not your everyday sight.. Cow chewing a snake.

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