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DIGEST | The Weekly Newsletter
Friday 27th November 2020

Hello and welcome to the re-designed DIGEST. At Innovation Thinking we are continually refreshing so we have a bunch of updates including a new banner design and an updated homepage. Please also check it out tell us what you think.

For those in North America we wish you a very Happy Thanksgiving with so much disruption around the world we all appreciate the opportunity to be thankful.

This week we introduce the STRATEGY section, we look at the impact of narcissistic leaders. There is an article about how career success really does come in clusters and an article on planning your day with time blocks.

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.

Last week we launched the third episode of our podcast - iTHINK Series Two - Do You Have A Start Up In You? with Craig Joyce and Euan Prentice from cyber security start-up Cythera. It has already had a huge amount of interest and if you haven't had a chance do check it out as we have another episode coming next week!

Have a great week and stay safe

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STRATEGY

Blue Ocean Strategies for Post Pandemic World

For those that have not read the Book – Blue Ocean Strategy – How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant. Or the seminal HBR 2004 article…

Corporate Social Responsibility

Ross Levine is Professor of Economic Analysis and Policy at Berkeley Hass. He write in this article that in a time of increased competition and pressures from the pandemic, it…

When Teams Can't Decide

Bringing cross functional teams together can introduce new problems. When teams can’t decide the team dynamics break down. It is easy for the leaders to blame a lack of trust…

LEADERSHIP

The Impact of Narcissistic Leaders

26 November 2020

This article based on a new paper from Berkeley Haas School of Business Professor Jennifer Chatman explores the profound and long lasting impact that narcissistic leaders have on their organisations. Narcissists ‘infect’ the culture of an organisation which can dramatically reduce collaboration and the integrity of staff and leaders. This destruction can last for a […]

The Need for More Humble Leaders

25 November 2020

Humble leaders listen more effectively, inspire great teamwork and collaboration as well as driving focus on achieving organisational goals. According to Jim Collins author of Good to Great, the best leaders display a combination of humility and fierce resolve. They are “modest, self-effacing, understated and fanatically driven by results”. A survey published in the Journal of […]

CAREER

24 November 2020

When You're Hot

Research at Kellogg North Western University proves the old adage “When you’re Hot, You’r Hot”. In a study of creatives and scientists they found that career successes really do come in clusters. While there is no common findings about when people might experience this in their careers, virtually everyone did have a hot streak at […]

24 November 2020

Time Blocks

With everyone working remotely, the demands on the day seemed to increase exponentially. Many people feel like they have lost control of their schedules with video calls back to back from dawn til dusk. Author Cal Newport proposes to time blocks in his book The Time-Block Planner: A Daily Method for Deep Work in a […]

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 […]

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. […]

DISTRACTION

How to carve a turkey - detailed step by step video (YouTube)

The best photo's from 2020 - and there are some amazing one in this collection (Reuters)

Simon Beck is a snow artist who creates massive designs in the snow by walking around in snowshoes (National Geographic - YouTube)

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