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DIGEST | The Weekly Newsletter
Friday 18th August 2020

Hello and welcome to DIGEST your regular career, leadership, entrepreneur and innovation update.

Last week we launched episode 3 of the iTHINK - a podcast all about leadership - an interview with Phil Aitken. His experience moving from an executive career in Australia to a global board career is fascinating and useful for anyone considering a transition to a board career. Next week we will launch episode 4 - an interview with board recruiters Suzanne Ardagh and Kathy Townsend.

This weeks articles include leadership learnings around Organisational Transformation, the incredible story of GitLab. There are career articles about what needs to change when you get promoted and being an intentional learner. In innovation there are stories on the Business of Innovation and Open Innovation.

Last week we added in the event calendar, with so many conferences now going virtual we have built a calendar to track when the most relevant conferences are happening around the world, there are lots in September and October so pleased check it out.

Have a great week and stay safe

Crispin

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LEADERSHIP

17 September 2020

Organisational Transformation

Transforming your organisation requires a mindset transformation, the excellent illustration below was shared this week on LinkedIn by an ex-colleague and it sums up how organisations need to think about and plan for transformation. Well done to Thoughtworks and Tanmay Vora who created this image. “The most profound business challenge we face today is how […]

17 September 2020

Middle management makes or breaks agility

Agile organisations develop products five times faster, make decisions three times faster, reallocate resources to highest priorities quickly and effectively (McKinsey, 2019). However middle management makes or breaks that agility, remaining a barrier to adoption and blocking the potential gains that come with holistic transformation to the agile way of working. “Managers like to take […]

17 September 2020

The Business of Innovation

In order for your business to thrive you need to identify new revenue opportunities, reduce costs, grow margins, create new markets, build strong customer relationships, have a powerful company culture – these are the business of innovation. Face it – innovation is what will make your business better than your competitor, it defines what makes […]

15 September 2020

GitLab Extremely Transparent & Incredibly Remote

This article reflects on the organisational culture at GitLab a company who is Transparent and Remote. GitLab have been been at the cutting edge of remote work models since the company was formed in 2011. With a staff of over 1300 people, GitLab has been touted the largest all remote organisation in the world (up […]

CAREER

You Got Promoted, So What Needs to Change?

17 September 2020

When you move up a level, you need to make sure you empower your team and effectively delegate to be successful without you. The strengths that make you terrific at hands-on delivery don’t always serve you perfectly once you’re responsible for juggling multiple teams, issues, and priorities — some of which are always going to be […]

The Career Advantage of Being an Intentional Learner

16 September 2020

This article explores the core mindsets and skills of effective learners, those who master that capability are referred to as Intentional Learners – possessors of a fundamental skill for professionals to cultivate in coming years. The process of unlocking that capability will create tremendous value for themselves and for those they lead and manage. Learning […]

INNOVATION

The Business of Innovation

17 September 2020

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 […]

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

Listen to Steve Jobs back when he was at NEXT in 1988

How the world has changed, then and now pictures

Bear nudges man awake as he snoozes by the pool

GPT-3 is an AI that can write creative fiction, or generate code and the list goes on...

New X-Ray Microscopy techniques enable this 3D rendering of a fruit fly brain.. (neutrons are highlighted in orange)

An artist turned a Spanish lighthouse into very colourful work of art

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