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DIGEST | The Weekly Newsletter
Friday 20th November 2020

Hello and welcome to DIGEST this week we look at Leadership Styles and how to develop yours, there is a DIY Guide to Career Growth and an article on how good Product Strategy reduces decision fatigue.

DIGEST is food for thought. Collecting, curating and synthesising the most timely and relevant perspectives on career, leadership, entrepreneur and innovation thinking from around the world.

This week we launched the third episode of our podcast - iTHINK Series Two - Do You Have A Start Up In You? In episode three we meet Craig Joyce and Euan Prentice from cyber security start-up Cythera. Euan and Craig were also two of the founders of O2 Networks which sold to Telstra in 2014 - it is a fascinating listen.

Have a great week and stay safe

Crispin

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LEADERSHIP

19 November 2020

Lead From The Heart

Use your emotional intelligence and lead from the heart, with all changes and uncertainty currently going on in the world author Anne Taylor explains that leading through rational, analytical and task driven approaches is less likely to achieve results in these volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous times. What is Leading From Your Heart? Firstly to […]

18 November 2020

How to Develop Your Leadership Style

Leadership style is an intangible that enables some people to get promoted and other to not progress. Some people refer to gravitas and others to soft skills but the important point to make is that these things do matter and can accelerate leadership opportunities or become a career blocker. The authors have conducted more than […]

CAREER

19 November 2020

DIY Guide to Career Growth

Carter Cast Professor of Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Kellogg University writes that you need to plan your own career and as such proposes this 8 point DIY guide to career growth. Develop goals and performance objectives. Establish clarity of your destination through specific goals and objectives with metrics that measure and track your success. Solve for […]

12 November 2020

Identifying Your Genius

Identifying your genius is about understanding what makes you different or special. It is your personal and professional unique value proposition. It fits quite nicely with defining your purpose (there are numerous articles in HBR and various Journals on the topic of purpose). Purpose is about being really clear what drives you. Genius is about […]

ENTREPRENEUR (& STARTUP)

17 November 2020

How To Get Attention

How to get attention from a Venture Capital firm is a problem many entrepreneurs and young start-ups face. Mark Cuban is the TV face of VC’s as a start-up billionaire and regular ‘Shark Tank’ investor. Apparently he receives over 1000 emails a day pitching new ideas to him. His advice to get attention is to […]

INNOVATION

19 November 2020

What Type of Innovation?

Understanding the opportunity can be best understood by specifying what type of innovation you are talking about. This article explores three types of innovation, largely developed on work from Harvard Professor and renowned writer on innovation Clayton Christensen. Efficiency Efficiency explores how to deliver improvements to how a company operates based its existing business model. […]

18 November 2020

Good Product Strategy

Good product strategy enables effective and efficient decision making. Effective product strategy lowers decision fatigue and simultaneously creates the psychological safety to make critical decisions. What Is Decision Fatigue? According to Adam Thomas “Decision fatigue, then, refers to the tendency of our decision-making ability to deteriorate in quality over the course of a long session”. He […]

DISTRACTION

100 of the best optical illusions explained.

The Luminar Bug Photo of the Year Award 2020

A fish inside a jellyfish - the strange world under the sea

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