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DIGEST | The Weekly Newsletter
Friday 17th July 2020

Welcome to DIGEST your weekly leadership and innovation update.

Each week we send out leadership and innovation articles that we have curated and summarised from all over the world, in this update there are five recent articles on leadership with some very practical tips and advice.

If you enjoyed this selection please look at the Innovation-Thinking website where you can review previous articles and newsletters as well as search on topics, categories or themes.

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Have a great week

Crispin.

15 July 2020

Improve Your Writing and Communication Skills in Your Free Time

Synopsis of an article from Fast Company by Jessica Thiefels Published 9th July 2020 Effective and compelling communication is a critical skill, you need clarity, persuasion and effective story telling to make sure your audience is fully engaged. Use Prompts for Creative Writing Build creative writing skills that you can apply to your business writing, […]

15 July 2020

Why Compassion is Better for Humanity Than Empathy.

Synopsis of an article from Forbes by Rasmus Hougaard, with Nick Hobson and Paula Kelley Published 8th July 2020 Rasmus Hougaard is the founder and managing director of the Potential Project, an organisation focused on building mindful leaders and organisations. In this article he makes the slightly contentious point that leaders often mistake empathy for […]

15 July 2020

How to Get People to Actually Participate in Virtual Meetings

Synopsis of an article from Harvard Business Review, by by Justin Hale and Joseph Grenny, Published 9th March 2020 The authors make the argument that too often meeting attendees check out. When everyone is in the same room there are techniques we all use to bring the attention back to the speaker but how do you do that […]

15 July 2020

Innovation in a crisis: Why it is more critical than ever.

Synopsis of an article from McKinsey, by Jordan Bar Am, Laura Furstenthal, Felicitas Jorge, and Erik Roth, Published 17th June 2020 “Prioritising innovation today is the key to unlocking post crisis growth” In a recent survey of over 200 organisations more than 90% of executives surveyed, said they expect that the COVID19 crisis will fundamentally change the […]

15 July 2020

One-on-ones are the most valuable

Synopsis of an article from The Startup by Mathilde Collin, Published 3rd May 2019 This story is about software startup – ‘FRONT‘ which is an email and collaboration platform but what they do is less important to the article, which is about the culture of the organisation. Written before CoVID this article talks to the […]

Other Distractions we enjoyed this week...

A range of activities that have varying levels of risk... (XKCD)

Senior Citizens recreate classic album covers. (BBC)

How to trick your brain to remember almost anything. (Wired)

This lady makes cakes (like you have never seen before)

Google Announce new online learning 100,000 scholarships for Coursera

6 Ways to Rewire your Brain for Innovation (Inc.)

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