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DIGEST | The Weekly Newsletter
Friday 18th December 2020

Happy Holidays... yes it is almost Christmas so once again hello and welcome to DIGEST for the last time in 2020. We are taking a break in January and will be back pumping out new article again in February 2021.

This week there are five fresh articles on Innovation, Leadership and Careers. As well as the usual assortment of distractions collected from our weekly browsing.

We also launch episode five of our podcast - iTHINK Series Two - Do You Have A Start Up In You? with Murray Hurps. Murray was a Startup Founder at 16 (Ad Muncher), CEO of Incubator 'Fishburners', and today is Director for Entrepreneurship at UTS as well as his role on the board of Startup Muster which he co-founded in 2013.

Have a happy and safe holiday season, look forward to seeing you in 2021.

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

17 December 2020

Fresh Collaboration

When you start working with someone new there are ways to make the fresh collaboration super effective. As Rebecca Zucker writes in HBR, before starting a new project, step back and get to know each other a little better. The way we collaborate can foster creativity and innovation but it also has potential to slow […]

15 December 2020

Press Pause

Being able to manage constantly changing priorities is an expected capability for todays leaders. Knowing how to juggle personal and business priorities and stay on top of the game requires knowing when to press pause. Pausing To Gain Focused Attention – When you are multi-tasking it is very likely that you are doing both tasks […]

CAREER

15 December 2020

Dealing With Exhaustion

This year has been tough on everyone. I think that everyone is dealing with exhaustion. The pandemic, a global recession, working from home, studying from home, everyone home. What started as a refreshing change became challenging as families juggled work and home responsibilities. The constant fear of the pandemic as numbers grew then fell and […]

15 December 2020

Saying No

The power of saying no comes from being able to make a choice. When we choose to say no, we create a space for prioritising better things to say yes to. That’s the premise of this article. Kat Cole helps us understand we all have finite resources and important choices to make. Being able to […]

15 December 2020

Working with High Conflict People

Its going to happen, one day you will be working in a team and face challenges with an individual. Personality challenges with high conflict people happens in all teams and all organisations. Some people may feel incredibly negative to you. They may always need to have the last word. Some people love to split hairs […]

INNOVATION

The Pandemic Pivot

8 December 2020

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 […]

Practical Innovation Magic

8 December 2020

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

Mt Etna erupts in Sicily

The beauty of snowflakes, close up

Photos of the year the world stood still

A quick flashback to Christmas 2019 - so much has changed! And yes to those who noted that we had originally planned to come back in early Jan, we changed our mind ;-). Happy Holidays.

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