A User’s Guide to Open Strategy
Open innovation methods can also be applied at a more general and strategic level — and this article presents a framework for doing just that. A simple insight sits at its heart: strategy is developed in three distinct phases, each of them requiring a different solution to get the balance between openness and secrecy right. Three phases: idea generation, formulation or execution.
^ADJ: If you only take one point, to me it is this Remember that famous Peter Drucker slogan, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast”? Strategy only has a chance, Drucker pointedly suggests, if people actively buy-in and champion it.
Huberman AI
Great use of AI, to interact with one of my favourite podcasters - Andrew Huberman - tools like this are going to change how we uptake information, changing by a factor of 10x our ability to consume.
Andrew Huberman, Ph.D., is a neuroscientist and tenured professor in the department of neurobiology and by courtesy, psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford School of Medicine. He has made numerous significant contributions to the fields of brain development, brain function and neural plasticity, which is the ability of our nervous system to rewire and learn new behaviors, skills and cognitive functioning.
Create a Growth Culture, Not a Performance-Obsessed
Many C-Suite leaders are focused on how to build higher performance cultures. The irony, we’ve found, is that building a culture focused on performance may not be the best, healthiest, or most sustainable way to fuel results. Instead, it may be more effective to focus on creating a culture of growth. Building a growth culture requires a blend of individual and organizational components: an environment that feels safe, a focus on continuous learning, time-limited experiments, and continuous feedback.
^ADJ: something that really resonated with me: "Perhaps the most fundamental lesson we’ve learned — including in our subsequent work with clients — is that fueling growth requires a delicate balance between challenging and nurturing."
Inside Ikea’s small-format store strategy
Ikea is going big for small-format stores.
^ADJ: I included this article because its interesting from a strategy perspective, and demonstrates how retail is changing.
7 Ways to Feel Better About Your Job
If you don’t like the work you do, the people you do it with, or the way you do it, you should change one of those things. This isn't an unhelpful push to quit your job - though some of you probably should - because for many of us, we'll face the same issues everywhere.
There's a few reasons for this:
Modern workplaces all experience the same problems - I've worked with hundreds of different teams and organisations now, across the public, private and NGO spectrum, and they're all battling a version of the same stuff. Siloes, overwhelm, short-termism, bureaucracy and frustration exist everywhere.
You're the same person everywhere you go - By mid-career, you get set in your ways. If you're prone to make your life harder than it needs to be, a perennial martyr, or a pedant, for example, you'll find all those habits resurfacing in a new job too.
Doing good stuff is hard - If there was a path to meaningful work that wasn't paved with challenges and stress, we'd all know about it by now. The more meaningful your work is, the more challenging it will be. Choose the problems you're willing to live with, because there will always be something.
Guide to Non-Sleep Deep Rest (NSDR) and how to get started
NSDR helps slow down your thought-flow and brain wave frequency, allowing your brain and body to rest deeply. It can help with sleep, stress, anxiety ... and even learning.
^ADJ: Some great tips and links to experts