You need two leadership gears; Want more innovation? Get out of your office and talk to people; Beta your life: existence in a disruptive world.
Journal of discoveries #46 - 25th of February, 2023
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Welcome to the 46th 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!
One “must read” for this week
“You Need Two Leadership Gears” by Lindy Greer, Francesca Gino and Bob Sutton.
There’s a way to lead that shifts between empowering people and taking charge to push them to do great work. We must know which mode is appropriate at what time: create a psychologically safe environment for the team to speak up and contribute, and we also need to take charge when it's time to end the discussion and act.
How to increase the ability to shift between modes? Question our assumptions about power and fixed hierarchies, study our habits, set clear expectations with meeting agendas and rituals, and reinforce shifts with words, deeds, and body language.
Personal development
Beta your life: existence in a disruptive world.
How to make peace with feeling less ambitious.
The top 10 in-demand skills for 2030.
Finding your hero.
Hyperbolic discounting: why you make terrible life choices.
The skill of self-confidence.
How emotionally intelligent people give critical feedback.
The paradox of choice.
Innovation
Want more innovation? get out of your office and talk to people.
Micro pessimism, macro optimism.
The elephant in the room: data storytelling is more than just data visualization.
The future of banking: a $20 trillion opportunity.
The maze is in the mouse. What ails Google? And how it can turn.
Don’t be sucked in by AI’s head-spinning hype cycles.
Microsoft launches the new Bing, with chatGPT built in.
Twenty-three augmented reality trends to keep an eye on for 2023.
Leadership and management
You need two leadership gears.
This is not a joke: the cost of being humorless.
Putting a face to a name: the art of motivating employees.
Beware of a culture of busyness.
This morale killer may be spreading among your employees.
Finding truth in disagreement: a psychologist’s guide.
What is the future of employee listening?
How to speak up for yourself.
One book
“Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art” by James Nestor.