Exponential organizations! Four steps to boost psychological safety at your workplace. Read the best 100 books over and over again.

Journal of discoveries #68 - 29th of July, 2023

Welcome to the 68th issue of the newsletter, “Journal of discoveries.” Each week, I check a list of hundreds of sources of inspiration to spot exciting articles, videos, podcasts, and books on personal development, leadership, management, technology, and innovation.

Let’s dive in!

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One “must read” for this week

“Exponential Organizations 2.0” book review by Rishad Tobaccowala.

An Exponential Organization 2.0 is defined by the authors of the book as “A purpose-driven, agile, and scalable organization that uses accelerating technologies to digitize, dematerialize, democratize, and demonetize its products and services, resulting in a 10x performance increase over its non-ExO peers”.

Personal development

• Read the best 100 books over and over again.

• A manifesto for thinking differently about careers.

• The public speaking guide.

• Processes for growth and self-innovation.

• Nuggets coach shared this brilliant 26-word poem after winning the NBA finals.

• The psychologist Carl Rogers and the art of active listening.

• Advanced co-active coaching dynamics: metavision.

• Explore or exploit? How to choose new opportunities.

Innovation

• Exponential organizations!

• On understanding power and technology.

• Preparing for the future.

• Vocabulary of the future.

• Miro AI.

• Tech is just the enabler.

• Position against your true competition to win the customer.

• Explaining the business model canvas.

Leadership and management

• Four steps to boost psychological safety at your workplace.

• Feedforward: look forward, not back.

• When your boss gives you bad feedback, badly.

• Make providing feedback a regular habit.

• Is purpose running us into the ground?

• Benefiting from AI also means investing in middle managers.

• The state of the IT leader: driven by efficient growth.

• Leadership that gets results.

One book

“The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life” by Mark Manson.