1% Extra Newsletter 20-01-23
The 1% Podcast – Rita McGrath
| Rita McGrath is a best-selling author, sought-after speaker, and longtime professor at Columbia Business School. As one of the world’s top experts on innovation and growth, Rita’s work is regularly published in the Harvard Business Review. She is consistently ranked among the Top 10 management thinkers in the world and was ranked #1 for strategy by Thinkers50. Rita is the author of the best-selling ‘The End of Competitive Advantage’ and ‘Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen’. |
The value of a culturally diverse board
Rita explains why she would advocate a culturally and age diverse board and speaks about how sponsorship and mentorship is a two way relationship.
2 mins
When and why we can rely on intuition
Intuition or gut instinct can be relied upon when you are in familiar territory and even if not Rita believes it is a skill that can be acquired like any other.
2 mins
How to spot and benefit from inflection points
Rita delves into what inflection points are, why they are so valuable and how to identify them when they appear in your work or personal life.
2 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
Crafting: How to increase engagement, performance, and job satisfaction
by Shay Dalton
“Dissatisfaction is likely to come to all workers at some point. Oftentimes it passes, proving itself to be no more than a tough project or bad day at the office. But if the problem is consistent and/or stifling, action may need to be taken. For those who don’t think the job itself is the problem so much as how they’re handling it, a potential solution is work crafting.”
Other Article Recommendations
Work
The jobs interviewing process is broken (vox)
In Your Career Embrace uncertainty, seek out new experiences, and let chance take hold (lifehacker)
How to ask for a raise (nytimes)
What It Takes to Be a Fair-Pay Workplace (hbr)
If you are having a hard time hiring, you may need to look inwards (thinkadvisor)
Performance & Growth
Why do we stop improving? And How to Fix it (scotthyoung)
How to Become Indistractable (calendar)
Psychology
The Art and Science of Spending Money (collabfund)
How Narcissism Is Tearing Us Apart (psychologytoday)
The difference between ‘habits’ and ‘routines’ (cnbc)
Procrastination: the cognitive biases that enable it – and why it’s sometimes useful (theconversation)
Change fatigue: When our brain’s adaptive capacity is depleted (nesslabs)
Business, Innovation & Economy
Soft Landing? (ft)
FOMO: The Worst Financial Trait (collabfund)
Plant-based meats now look like a transitional technology, i.e. fad. (bloomberg)
Health & Fitness
Why your ‘why’ matters more than your ‘how.’ (substack)
More evidence that sitting is bad for you and what you can do about it (theconversation)
How diet affects aging and health (editioncnn)
Sport
Books
Five insights from “Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health—and Improving Treatment for Anxiety” by Dr. Chris Palmer. (nextbigideaclub)
If You Only Read A Few Books In 2023, Read These (ryanholiday)
Japanese Philosopher Kojin Karatani Awarded The 2022 Berggruen Prize (noemamag)
A Q&A with Eric Balchunas about his book “The Bogle Effect: How John Bogle and Vanguard Turned Wall Street Inside Out and Saved Investors Trillions.” (evidenceinvestor)
Book Review: 50 Women in Sport (thesporting)
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