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5 Feb 2021Newsletter2 min read

Curated Insights | Friday 5th February 2021

Happy Friday,This week's insights include: • How healthy is your organisation? 🍏 • The only seven coaching questions you need 💬 • How to be an antiracist 🖤Enjoy!How healthy is your organisation? 🍏This week I attended "Designing Epistemically Healthy Organisations with Wardley MappingThere were many insights across the three days. In particular, I enjoyed exploring definitions of organisational health.An unhealthy system is where people within the organisational system are unaware of how the

21 Jan 2021Newsletter2 min read

Curated Insights | Friday 21st January 2021

Happy Friday,This week's insights include: • Why you shouldn't build Feature Teams • How to overcome your fears • The cure for zoom fatigueEnjoy.Don't Build Feature Teams ⛔️This week I finished Empowered by Marty Cagan.I enjoyed Marty’s very strong views on Product Strategy and Feature Teams:“In most companies, there is no product strategy. Notice I didn't say a bad product strategy—I mean literally no product strategy. The feature teams are simply there to serve the business.”Marty believes tha

14 Jan 2021Newsletter2 min read

Curated Insights | Friday 15th January 2021

Happy FridayHere are this week's insights to help you, your team and organisation develop better habits.Enjoy!How To Build An Organisations Resilience 💪This week I’ve been listening to the Art of Resilience by Ross Edgley.Ross shares how he became the first person to swim around Great Britain. It took 157 days to swim 1,780-miles. He swam 12 hours a day and ate more than 500 bananas!A key to success was limiting reliance on Adaptation Energy. This is energy used by the body in response to stre

7 Jan 2021Newsletter1 min read

Curated Insights | Friday 8th January 2021

Happy Friday,Here are this week's insights to help you and your organisation improve.Enjoy!1. A book summary:Atomic Habits at WorkThis summary is curated for leaders, coaches and consultants within organisations.Big Ideas include:1. Tiny improvements lead to remarkable results2. Focus less on goals, OKR's and outcomes. Focus more on systems.3. Change who you are by what you do.4. Design the Environment to make change obvious.5. Use social dynamics to make change attractive.6. Enable consiste

1 Jan 2021Newsletter1 min read

Curated Insights | Friday 1st January 2021

Happy New Year Here are this week's insights to help you, your team and organisation develop better habits.Enjoy!1. A book summary:The Great Mental Models by Shane Parrish and Rhiannon Beaubien3 Big Ideas:1. Adopting the right mental models will increase your chances of success in life and work.2. To work with complex problems, your mental models must be continuously upgraded and refined.3. The most successful people in life are those with the fewest blind spots.2. A quote:"Unless it's a He

25 Dec 2020Newsletter1 min read

Curated Insights | Friday 25th December 2020

Happy Christmas!Here are this week's curated insights to help you, your team and organisation improve.Enjoy!1. A podcast:Naval Ravikant on the Tim Ferris Show - Episode 97An excellent episode. My highlights were: • When you think of the successful people, who is the first that comes to mind? [58:19] • How to replace bad habits with good habits [1:07:06] • Early life education and the importance of “loving to read” [1:43:19]I didn't realise that Naval has quite a big cult following. His thinking