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DIGEST | The Weekly Newsletter
Friday 4th August 2020

Happy Friday and welcome to DIGEST your regular leadership and innovation update.

In the leadership area there is a focus on Immunity to Change, Contingency Planning and how Automation, AI and ML are transforming the meaning of work. In the career section we follow up on the having alternative plans for your career and guidance on how to deal with toxic people. In innovation there are stories on Open Innovation and Continuous Innovation.

By the way, if you haven't listened to the iTHINK Podcast interview with Doug Snedden yet, please do check it out. It is a great conversation on his career experience moving from a corporate role to a board career, next week we have an interview with Phil Aiken which I am sure you will also really enjoy.

Have a great week and stay safe

Crispin.

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LEADERSHIP

2 September 2020

Immunity to Change

Why is it so difficult to achieve change? You can get everyone aligned to achieving the goal and yet still deal with significant resistance. According to authors Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey the main reason is that most of us have a built in immunity to change. “Doctors can tell heart patients that they will […]

1 September 2020

Contingency Planning - Red Teaming to Prepare for Every Possible Outcome

This article explains how to use Red Teaming as a way to develop contingency plans for any potential outcome. Based on experience from Operation Desert Storm, Retired Colonel Sean Hannah writes from his personal experience about how the US Army builds contingency plans referred to as Red Teaming and how you can leverage that is […]

1 September 2020

Technology is Changing the Meaning of Work

Technology is changing the meaning of work but Purpose, Potential and Perspective connect technology to humanity and shape the attributes of the Social Enterprise. This is all according to this years Human Capital Trends from Deloitte, which has been published annually for over a decade. The Deloitte Human Capital Trends Report is a weighty tome, […]

25 August 2020

Stop asking "How Are You" and have a real conversation.

Its time to stop asking “How Are You” and have a real conversation, as Dan Rockwell points out that it is time to stop using condescending or out of touch questions such as: How are you? How are you doing? How are you feeling? No one has good answers to these questions and any response […]

CAREER

Why Talented People Don't Use Their Strengths

3 September 2020

In this article the author identifies that often really talented people struggle in their jobs because they are not in the roles that best suited their individual strengths. People talk about playing to your strengths but often that is easier said than done and the premise is that is because people often undervalue what they […]

Everybody Has a Plan Until They Get Punched in the Mouth

2 September 2020

“Everybody Has a Plan Until They Get Punched in the Mouth” most will immediately recognise the quote as coming from boxer Mike Tyson, it is such a very a familiar phrase, so much so that you have probably used it yourself at one time or another but what does it really mean. When considering your […]

How Do You Deal with Toxic People

2 September 2020

How do you deal with Toxic People? Especially when they are a co-worker or a boss? How should you manage a toxic staff member? There are numerous articles published on this topic and that is because unfortunately the problem is a fairly common one and many of us find it difficult to find the best […]

Technology is Changing the Meaning of Work

1 September 2020

INNOVATION

Why Now is the Time for "Open Innovation"

3 September 2020

The concept of Open Innovation was originated by Henry Chesbrough in his book (of the same name) published in 2003. Chesbrough a lecturer a Berkeley and previously Harvard coined the phrase to explain how “a distributed, more participatory and more decentralised approach to innovation” can be more effective than any company attempting to innovate on […]

Continuous Innovation: The Real Key to an Innovative Organisation

2 September 2020

Continuous innovation is a focus on gradual improvement, it consists of smaller and more frequent innovations delivering continual benefits. Many people associate the term ‘innovation’ with game-changing disruption but that is actually the exception rather than the rule. A disruptive innovation that transforms an industry with a dramatic pivot, new services, creative business/service models and […]

DISTRACTION

David Blaine goes up holding balloons... (YouTube)

Stressed Elephants to be given medical marijuana

America's dive bars face an uncertain future

This skateboarding French Bulldog is so good he can go down stairs

Honeybee venom is shown to kill two aggressive subtypes of breast cancer cells.

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