BCG - Thinking Outside the Blocks
A Strategic Perspective on Blockchain and Digital Tokens.
Background to Blockchain and the potencial for where it could be incredibly disruptive - BCG have put together a guide that is very worthwhile read. ^ADJ
Spending 10 Minutes a Day on Mindfulness Subtly Changes the Way You React to Everything
Leaders across the globe feel that the unprecedented busyness of modern-day leadership makes them more reactive and less proactive. There is a solution to this hardwired, reactionary leadership approach: mindfulness.
Proof! Your team of superchickens is destroying productivity
Human productivity can be difficult to measure, especially in some knowledge-worker roles. Take content marketing for example. What level of output indicates acceptable performance; one viral blog post per month or ten mediocre ones?
Chicken productivity, on the other hand, has one simple success metric — how many eggs are in the basket? It may seem absurd to compare the efforts of these two very different species. But in her Ted Talk, serial entrepreneur and “management thinker”, Margaret Heffernan, teaches several indispensable business lessons gleaned from observing our fine feathered friends.
How to read more books — Quartz
Vowing to read more books is a perennially popular New Year’s resolution—right up there with getting organized and exercising. But even if you consider yourself a bibliophile, it can be hard to get through books when you’ve fallen out of practice. Here are a few tricks that can help you read more in 2017—and become more relaxed, empathetic and mentally fit to boot.
Leslie’s Compass: A Framework For Go-To-Market Strategy
In discussing Go To Market Strategy, the author has the view of it coming down to: Is your product marketing-intensive or sales-intensive?