1% Extra Newsletter 16-12-22
The 1% Podcast – Tessa Misiaszek
Tessa Misiaszek is a speaker, writer, and professor who, throughout her professional and academic experience, has examined the intersection between marketing strategy and workplace culture. Today, Misiaszek is the head of research for the Korn Ferry Institute, an Instructor with Harvard Division of Continuing Education, and cofounder of the Happy at Work podcast. She is also the co-author of the newly released book, ‘Branding that Means Business’.




Corporate power and cancel culture
Companies now hold more promise of global change than governments for young people and organisations can protect themselves from cancel culture via remaining open and honest.
3 mins
How honesty supports brand transitioning
Brands that have honesty as a core value and live that value find it easier to transition their products since their target market understand and appreciate that brands evolve, just like us.
2 mins
The reinvention of non-digital industries
Many traditionally non-digital industries and brands are now offering a new definition of customer experience and revising their marketing strategies and executive teams as a result of this.
1 mins
Insight of the Week
“My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.”
Indira Gandhi
Creating and fostering cultures of meaning
by Shay Dalton
“A modish topic, but sometimes less emphasised, facet of success is company culture. Culture is a catchall term, but it comes down to how organisation systems are formed and maintained. It is social in origin and totalising in dissemination. That matters because humans are not innate; we produce and reproduce these systems through learned behaviour, mirroring, and various institutions.”

Other Article Recommendations
Work

38 Smart Questions to Ask in a Job Interview (hbr)
15 Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer (virtualcoachingpartners)
4 Ways to Put Your People First During Economic Uncertainty (kotterinc)
Don’t Salaries Matter? What Really Motivates (ssir)
Is it better to be a Generalist or Specialist in your Career? (substack)
Performance & Growth

We all can reach a “flow state.” Here’s how (bigthink)
3 rules to express your thoughts so that everyone will understand you (bigthink)
Four-day week: study shows working less boosts wellbeing and productivity (positivenews)
How To Create A Daily Schedule To Organize Your Day (lifehack)
The rules of improv can make you funnier. They can also make you more confident (npr)
Psychology

Behavioral Scientist’s Notable Books of 2022 (behavioralscientist)
Just Do It Now (josephcwells)
Everybody’s willpower works differently (dariousforoux)
Five insights from Kieran Setiya author of the new book “Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way.” (nextbigideasclub)
Why Gut-Decisions Beat Agonising Over Business Data (spring)
Longform

Derek Thompson, “The U.S. remains the world’s R&D factory, but when it comes to building, we are plainly going backwards.” (theatlantic)
In a bull market, no one argues about the valuation of private assets. Then 2022 happened (institutionalinvestor)
How the pandemic disrupted our relationship with work (cityjournal)
The world has a concrete problem (noemamag)
The circuitous path a book takes to hit the New York Times bestseller list (esquire)
Business, Innovation & Economy

Don’t Try to Get Rich Twice (awealthofcommonsense)
There’s nothing noble in taking unnecessary risks (dariousforoux)
The ultra-rich are now buying their own submarines (ft)
The top trends shaping business today—and what’s on the horizon for 2023 (kearney)
Pepsi has become a hotbed for CEO talent (fortune)
Health & Fitness

Becoming Athletic In Your 50s (clivethompson)
Want to Age Well? Bulletproof Your Back and Spine With These Exercises (wellness52)
How do men and women age differently? (sciencedaily)
Is long Covid another example of a ‘functional neurological disorder’? (newrepublic)
Researchers are questioning the cause of Alzheimer’s disease (quantanmagazine)
Movies

The best movies of 2022 including ‘Aftersun.’ (theringer)
The best movies of 2022 including ‘Navalny.’ (variety)
The best movies of 2022 including ‘After Yang.’ (theatlantic)
The best movies of 2022 including ‘Armageddon Time.’ (newyorker)
Books

A Q&A with Daniel Pink author of “The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward.” (behavioralscientist)
The top 22 business books of 2022 including “Bully Market: My Story of Money and Misogyny at Goldman Sachs” by Jamie Fiore Higgins (nextbigideaclub)
Maria Popova’s favorite books of 2022 including “An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us” by Ed Yong (themarginalian)
The best book Ryan Holiday read in 2022 including “Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman” by Merle Miller (ryanholiday)