Leader’s Kitbag – August 2019
Hi and welcome back to the 4iGroup monthly Leader’s Kitbag – our compilation of items to help leaders learn, lead better and thrive themselves.
This month as usual we divide our recommended intake across various mediums so you can immediately head toward the area which is both most accessible to you, and best suits your learning style. I’ve had some feedback that it would be helpful if I provided a ‘time frame’ guide (similar to sites like Medium) so you can judge where you can devote the spare moments you have appropriately. As a guide, the reading time for this instalment of the Kitbag should be around 3.5mins! This indication will be an approximation with the reading sections appreciating varying reading speeds, but at least for the watch and listen sections it’s easily more defined! I’ll aim to include this for all recommendations moving forward and hope it will be of service to you all.
A welcome mention to some new subscribers to our community who have joined us since last month’s note;
– Damian, so nice to speak this week after so many years, great to hear that the newsletter has kept you informed and prompted you to get in touch.
– Jess, great to see you joining the community here and looking forward to hearing your thoughts when we speak next.
To everyone, thanks in advance for your time and attention devoted to the Kitbag, as always I welcome your comments so do reply if you’ve got any thoughts or suggestions on this month’s recommendations.
All the best,
Tim & all at 4iGroup
To Read
An article shared with me this month by one of the Kitbag community, many thanks Richard. Accenture present an interesting and, for me at least, compelling case for re-framing the way we think about what’s required from the highest echelon of leadership, and that a critical group which spans customers and employees are the keys to future growth and managing disruption – Click here for the article on Accenture.com this synopsis 15mins, full report (see end of article, 45mins)
A quick 15min read on building a Mission-driven business, aimed at entrepreneurs but extracts appropriate for any leader – Click here to see the article on Ideou.com
A little longer at 20 mins, an HBR Article on empathy I came across whilst adding some resources into our up-coming EQ course, on the importance of deploying empathy for effective and sustainable organisational change Click here to review the article on HBR
To Listen
If you’d prefer to listen than read, there’s an audio file in the Ideo article with a longer form interview (40mins) with Gina Biachini on building a mission led business – Click here to go directly to soundcloud for the recording
An interesting discussion on one of my favourite ABC podcasts, Future Tense, focusing on outsourcing and the impact on jobs and business models in Australia (29mins) – Click here for the apple podcast link for the show
And another local star (in my eyes and a few others I’m sure) who’s taken to the podcasting stage, innovation guru Amantha Imber. This episode is one of her ‘quick ones’, at only 8mins it’s one of the shortest you’ll find on any podcast platform – this one a curious discussion Pintrest CEO on the role of clothes and identity at work – Click here for the apple podcast link
To Watch
One to watch, albeit watch out for at this stage, I’m really looking forward to watching the story of General Magic, a grand failure whose innovations were ahead of their time (hence the failure) but led to some of the devices we are so reliant on today… click here for the trailer and if you enjoy that click here to pre-order the doco in full on itunes
As well as being just visually incredible, informative and entertaining, what I’ve really enjoyed about One Strange Rock is the repeated lessons on how shifting perspective, such as looking at the world from space, can make you appreciate complexity and connection – two things which are much under-appreciated in many of the leadership discussions I see and hear around the world. So if you enjoy a good ‘nature show’, and/or are also a Will Smith fan, check the series out (episode length around 40mins) click here for the trailer (2mins) on National Geographic or here to go straight to Netflix
