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DIGEST | The Weekly Newsletter
Friday 4th December 2020

Hello and welcome to DIGEST this week there are new articles on Strategy, Leadership and Career.

We also launch episode four of our podcast - iTHINK Series Two - Do You Have A Start Up In You? with successful startup founder Holly Cardew.

Have a great week and stay safe

Crispin

PODCAST

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STRATEGY

The Y Shaped Re-invention

The pandemic has had dramatic impacts to companies all over the world. While politicians are pushing for a V-shaped recovery to the economy. Most CEOs recognise that is totally beyond…

Lessons from Bezos

Amazon has now been in business for 23 years, and every year Jeff Bezos has taken the time to write to shareholders. These letters are lessons from Bezos, they articulate…

LEADERSHIP

Becoming a More Effective Manager

3 December 2020

Management is a leadership function but has accountability for achieving the team goals. So the more effective manager looks both at the goals and helping the team achieve them. This DIGEST is synthesising themes from Kellogg School professor of entrepreneurship and innovation Carter Cast. He starts by noting that “We talk about inspirational leadership and brave […]

The Power of Storytelling

1 December 2020

The power of storytelling is the way it engages the audience. It connects the storyteller with the audience, creating a trust bond that feels very authentic. When friend and colleague Darren Batty shared the article from Julie Neumark on LinkedIn recently I realised it was an important topic we had not covered yet. Of course […]

CAREER

Learn FAST

1 December 2020

You don’t have to look very far on the internet to come across articles on Jim Kwik, the boy with the broken brain how he taught himself to hack the brain to learn fast. This article compiles input from a number of sources, Jim himself is prolific in self promotion but there are a number […]

When You're Hot

24 November 2020

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 […]

ENTREPRENEUR (& STARTUP)

How To Get Attention

17 November 2020

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 […]

Startup Paradoxes

4 November 2020

Silicon Valley is world famous for being the birthplace to many start ups, most of the US’s venture capital goes to firms based in the valley but many fail as they struggle to grow and the process weeds out the best ideas and the strongest businesses from the rest. Silicon Valley has access to talent […]

INNOVATION

What Type of Innovation?

19 November 2020

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. […]

Good Product Strategy

18 November 2020

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

This is a nerdy science but very cool slo mo video of a floating apple...

Huge Alligator spotted on Florida gold course

Unbelievable shot - Golfer Jon Rahm skips a ball across a pond and gets a hole in one.

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