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DIGEST | The Weekly Newsletter
Friday 9th October 2020

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

This week we have a very special podcast Episode 5 of the iTHINK - a podcast all about leadership - an interview with Vicki Townsend - this is one of our best episodes yet and is very useful for any leader dealing with how the pandemic is impacting their organisation.

As usual today we have new articles on leadership, careers, entrepreneurs, and innovation.

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Have a great week and stay safe

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LEADERSHIP

Forget the Black Swan: focus on the Rhino

8 October 2020

With the dual pressures of the pandemic and the economic crisis, many executives are challenged dealing with the constant increase in new challenges that appear every day. Many leaders claim that with all this going on they have no time for strategy and planning, often using the excuse that this is a ‘Black Swan event’. […]

The Avocado Leader

8 October 2020

The Avocado Leader is a new term coined to reflect a change in management behaviours during the pandemic. The Avocado Leader has a soft and empathetic exterior with a hard business core. Academics from Macquarie Business School together with management consultancy We Are Unity conducted research interviewing senior and mid level executives from ASX200 firms […]

Leadership and Power

7 October 2020

This article looks at the different type of power that management use in leadership positions, positional power and personal power. “The most effective leaders appear to exhibit a degree of versatility and flexibility that enables them to adapt their behavior to the changing and contradictory demands made on them Ralph Stogdill (The Leadership Handbook) It […]

Six Principles of Strategic Effectiveness

6 October 2020

Leadership is a profoundly personal face to face relationship, trust is established when leaders treat each other as valued. Strategic Effectiveness requires leaders build highly resilient highly effective teams that can weather the impacts of the current global pressures. High performing teams require authentic leadership, which involves honouring the moral obligation to care genuinely for […]

The Servant Leader

6 October 2020

Over recent years the term ‘Servant Leadership’ became mainstream in business schools and leadership education. Synonymous with Agile Teams the servant leader empowers and enables the teams, effectively reversing the traditional role of staff making the manager successful. This article from McKinsey Quarterly explores the link between employee satisfaction and how managers are improving the […]

The 12 Stages of Agile Transformation

30 September 2020

More and more organisations are moving to adopt Agile Transformation not just in standard project methodologies but transforming all resource management. The goal is to better align organisation strategic priorities with scarce resource utilisation ensuring that company is always working on what is highest priority. This article was adapted from an original article published by […]

CAREER

How to Manage Anxiety

7 October 2020

How to manage anxiety – The pandemic, recession and uncertainty has increased the level of stress and anxiety most people are feeling. Anxiety is fed watered and sustained by the presence of fear, it is such a negative and primal emotion. Designed to keep us safe it can overwhelm our thoughts and emotions. “Anxiety is […]

Building Professional Networks

1 October 2020

Professional Networks can make the difference of an individuals potential to be successful. How connected you are helps define your ability to leverage collective knowledge and collective problem solving. It introduces you to new ideas, new places, new opportunities. After establishing the importance of professional networking, what actually is it? “It is a deliberate activity […]

ENTREPRENEUR (& STARTUP)

8 October 2020

StartUp Survival

The best opportunity for your startup survival in a recession and pandemic is to avoid making rash decisions. This article provides some tactics and strategies to manage during these difficult times Minimise There is every chance that when the pandemic hit your revenues reduced substantially. Which may well have sent you looking for funding sources […]

INNOVATION

8 October 2020

Identity Blocks Innovation

Innovation is built using well proven methodologies, however it requires more than an effective process to motivate and inspire the imagination of an innovation team. The right leadership is central to any innovation teams success and if not managed carefully leader and team identity blocks innovation. People and particularly leadership are a very important part […]

6 October 2020

Five Trends in Innovation

Five trends in innovation identified by Inc. Magazine. None of these are particularly new or transformational, which is an accurate reflection of how innovation is being applied through the pandemic. Organisations are responding to market conditions, planned transformation to Digital and Online Channels have been urgently accelerated. The global trend to enable workforces to work […]

30 September 2020

The Eight Essentials of Innovation

The Eight Essentials of Innovation – Large companies find innovation hard, they are usually much better at executing strategy than they are at innovating. Which is why many large organisations fail to achieve growth through creativity and instead focus on optimising existing businesses. Innovation and Creativity Innovation is a complex endeavour it requires practices and […]

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 2020 Drone Photo Award are full of amazing pictures but this is the Winner with a shark in a school of salmon that forms into a heart!

The best meme's for 2020 - you know you want to look!

Brazilian surfer Maya Gabeira breaks own world record for largest wave surfed by a woman (73.5 ft)

Have you ever been fascinated about the economics of vending machines?

Remarkable maps that show how things changed over time

An Otter looking for love...

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