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DIGEST | The Weekly Newsletter
Friday 4th December 2020

Hello and welcome to DIGEST this week there are six fresh articles on Strategy, Innovation, Leadership and Career. As well as the usual assortment of distractions collected from our weekly browsing.

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.

Our next episode will come out next week on Friday the 18th December and then we will be taking a break until January 8th.

Have a great week and stay safe

Crispin

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STRATEGY

The Path to Transformation

Around the world leaders have rapidly changed business models, cut costs and plotted new paths to enable them to make the path to transformation. To thrive in this ‘new normal’ will require companies to make even more fundamental changes. This is the basis of the argument from McKinsey’s Robinson who explains that true transformation requires […]

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 their control, instead they need to lead a Y shaped re-invention of their business. This is the premise put forward by Navi Radjou in Forbes […]

LEADERSHIP

10 December 2020

Leadership Creativity

With all of the current pressure of business leaders you could be forgiven for saying right now leadership creativity is not a priority. However as this article explains creativity is the basis of innovation. Creativity finds opportunity. Creativity enables businesses to pivot. “One doesn’t manage creativity. One manages for creativity“ Amabile and Khaire (HBR 2008) Creativity is […]

9 December 2020

Making Tough Decisions

There are times when you have to make a difficult call. It is an important part of the senior leadership role, to make big decisions that have potentially lasting ramifications. Making tough decisions is not easy, but there are some techniques that can help. Ed Gillcrist is a CEO and former marine he applies his […]

CAREER

Responding to Critics

8 December 2020

I receiving some of the harshest criticism from a leader who contributed an enormous amount to helping my career. We will all get criticised at times and it is important to consider why you are getting the feedback when you are responding to critics. Amazing as it may seem not everyone agrees with you. Not […]

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 […]

INNOVATION

8 December 2020

The Pandemic Pivot

The impact of the pandemic and the associated economic recession is touching businesses around the world. Most are facing major changes in customer behaviour. Impacts to supply chains and challenges with sales channels. In these troubling times some companies will fail and others will apply the pandemic pivot to transform through innovative opportunities. By now […]

8 December 2020

Practical Innovation Magic

Turning ideas into reality requires more than persistence, as this article explains it is much more like practical innovation magic. Innovation is taking a great idea to make a change to a process, product or to improve performance. Often the most brilliant novel ideas are the hardest for others to understand the potential. If others […]

DISTRACTION

The 2020 news bloopers from around the world

The 100 greatest innovations of 2020 from Popular Science. The 33rd best of what is new awards...

Tom Whitwell writes about the 52 remarkable things he learned in 2020. There are some absolutely fascinating things here

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