August 30, 2021 Good morning, Broadsheet readers! Elizabeth Holmes reveals a trial strategy, there’s a deep pool of candidates in the Boston mayoral race, and Finland’s prime minister took a meaningful summer vacation. Have a good Monday.– Summer break. Need a new role model when it comes to work-life balance? Look no further than Finnish… Read More The Broadsheet Newsletter

 * How’d they do it without you? [ https://p.feedblitz.com/r3.asp?l=180356050&f=1081591&c=7897812&u=5102652 ] Somewhere, perhaps nearby, it went well.A family gathering happened and all the details were right.A project launched on Kickstarter and it succeeded.A person was hired and they were a good choice.The terms and conditions were updated, and no mistakes were made…It’s easy to use our indispensability as… Read More Seth Godin Blog

  My mission is simple. I want to help successful people achieve positive, lasting change in behavior; for themselves, their people, and their teams. I want to help you make your life a little better. Thank you for subscribing! Life is good. Culture Eats Strategy For Breakfast – But Did Covid Eat Culture? Marshall Goldsmith… Read More The Marshall Goldsmith Newsletter

 * Is TikTok powerful? [ https://p.feedblitz.com/r3.asp?l=180340660&f=1081591&c=7896128&u=5102652 ] To be powerful, a medium needs two things:– The ability to reach people who take action– The ability for someone in charge to change what those people see and hear and doThe telephone reaches a lot of people, but AT&T has very little power because they have no influence over… Read More Is tik tok powerful? by SEth Godin

  This is the weekly email digest of the daily online journal Brain Pickings by Maria Popova. If you missed last week’s edition — music and the mystery of aliveness, panpsychism and the enigma of consciousness, the author of The Little Prince on wonder in the age of machines — you can catch up right here. If my labor of… Read More Brainpickings.org Newsletter

 * Feature requests for monopolists [ https://p.feedblitz.com/r3.asp?l=180326278&f=1081591&c=7894642&u=5102652 ] I’d like Gmail to be smart enough to automatically skip the spam folder for any mail that’s coming from someone I just wrote to.I’d like my Apple calendar to know that I never, ever schedule meetings at 3:30 am and to guess that I mean PM. And I’d like… Read More Feature requests for monopolists

  Cyber-realists [ https://p.feedblitz.com/r3.asp?l=180304980&f=1081591&c=7893352&u=5102652 ] Soon after the invention of the wagon, someone was able to move logs around much more easily. And shortly after that, someone had a wagon run over their leg. Wagons were used to deliver food but they also were put to use hauling weapons around. The cyber-optimists believe that the wheel of… Read More Cyber-realists

  August 27, 2021 Good morning, Broadsheet readers! Tina Tchen steps down as Time’s Up CEO, GM requries employees to report their vaccination status, and we ponder why there are still so few female governors. Have a relaxing weekend.– No. 45. Kathy Hochul’s ascension to governor of New York has caused some overdue reflection on just… Read More The Broadsheet Newsletter

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 * Solving for stress [ https://p.feedblitz.com/r3.asp?l=180240854&f=1081591&c=7888054&u=5102652 ] If we’re hungry, the obvious solution is to eat something.If we’re restless, it pays to get up and walk around.Is stress different?Along the way, it seems as though we got confused about the best way to deal with the stress that comes from work and from the projects we work… Read More The Seth Godin Newsletter

  My mission is simple. I want to help successful people achieve positive, lasting change in behavior; for themselves, their people, and their teams. I want to help you make your life a little better. Thank you for subscribing! Life is good. 7 Ways to Leverage Power Power is not always just as it appears… Read More The Marshall Goldsmith Newsletter

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 * Which problem are we solving? [ https://p.feedblitz.com/r3.asp?l=180223000&f=1081591&c=7886854&u=5102652 ] Solving a problem puts value creation first.Who’s it for?What problem does it solve?Would we miss it if you didn’t build it?At the beginning of the web, companies grew by focusing on the problems that their users had.As a result, people found a partner, a place to chat, a… Read More Seth Godin Newsletter

 * In it for the money [ https://p.feedblitz.com/r3.asp?l=180191220&f=1081591&c=7883880&u=5102652 ] It’s such a hard thing to be honest about.Because money is tied into status, possibility, self-worth, connection, sustenance and more.How many people would be doctors if being a doctor was something you couldn’t get paid for?How many artists would mint NFTs if they couldn’t sell them? How many… Read More In it for the money – SEth Godin

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 * Time dilation [ https://p.feedblitz.com/r3.asp?l=180106176&f=1081591&c=7877436&u=5102652 ] You can read this post in six minutes. It took me more than an hour to write.That extra editing and polish is a benefit to the reader.You can read this post instead of 100 others, because people highlighted or shared or ranked or otherwise filtered the other things you might be… Read More SETH GODIN NEWSLETTER

  My mission is simple. I want to help successful people achieve positive, lasting change in behavior; for themselves, their people, and their teams. I want to help you make your life a little better. Thank you for subscribing! Life is good. HELP my brand is in a major crisis. How do I survive…? Marshall… Read More The Marshall Goldsmith Newsletter

  FS | BRAIN FOOD Welcome to Sunday Brain Food: a weekly newsletter full of timeless ideas and insights for life and business. (Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up here.) FS “I really believe humans are mostly magic and that we are all just unfinished magic and we’re more likely to be the fullest… Read More FS | BRAIN FOOD newsletter

 Now let’s explore this week’s summaries! Dare to Lead by Brené Brown If you’ve ever read anything by Brené Brown, you know how amazing she is. This week’s video summary is one of her best books, Dare to Lead, which challenges conventional leadership ideas in the best possible ways. Instead of telling you to be a… Read More 4 minute book summaries newsletter

  This is the weekly email digest of the daily online journal Brain Pickings by Maria Popova. If you missed last week’s edition — the optimism of the oyster, Edward Weston on creativity, Virginia Woolf on the power of nature and the transcendence of a total solar eclipse — you can catch up right here. — you can… Read More BrainPickings.org Newsletter

 * Variability, industrialization and hating your job [ https://p.feedblitz.com/r3.asp?l=180058592&f=1081591&c=7873218&u=5102652 ] 50 years ago, Oldham and Hackman proposed the job characteristics model. It so resonates with people that it feels like common sense: Job satisfaction is driven by five factors:Task significance: Does the work you do create meaning or impact?Task identity: Do you feel ownership (emotionally) in the… Read More Variability, industrialization and hating your job

What to do with your feelings: Surprise helps you see Helping Leader to Do Better, Still Better. To be the best, you have to Beat the Best. Better is Still Better.

United Kingdom: Rights groups join forces to call for UK corporate accountability laws Helping Leader to Do Better, Still Better. To be the best, you have to Beat the Best. Better is Still Better.

  My mission is simple. I want to help successful people achieve positive, lasting change in behavior; for themselves, their people, and their teams. I want to help you make your life a little better. Thank you for subscribing! Life is good. Learn to Respond, Not React! With no available scapegoat, we don’t get upset.… Read More The Marshall Goldsmith Newsletter

  * Making a difference (making a point) [ https://p.feedblitz.com/r3.asp?l=180016736&f=1081591&c=7870028&u=5102652 ] There are countless ways to make a point. You can clearly demonstrate that you are angry, smart, concerned, stronger, faster or more prepared than the person you’re engaging with. But making a point isn’t the same thing as making a difference. To make a difference, we… Read More Making a difference

  This is Brain Pickings midweek pick-me-up, drawn from my fifteen-year archive of ideas unblunted by time, resurfaced as timeless nourishment for heart, mind, and spirit. (If you don’t yet subscribe to the standard Sunday newsletter of new pieces published each week, you can sign up here — it’s free.) If you missed last week’s archival resurrection — the… Read More BrainPickings.org newsletter

 * Developing a picture [ https://p.feedblitz.com/r3.asp?l=179996702&f=1081591&c=7868642&u=5102652 ] That used to involve putting film or paper into a chemical bath. You could have a small influence over what happened, but almost all the work involved setting up the shot in the first place. The goal of the bath was to uncover what was already on the film.Developing today… Read More Seth Godin Newsletter

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 * Leveling up isn’t easy [ https://p.feedblitz.com/r3.asp?l=179961180&f=1081591&c=7866048&u=5102652 ] Once you’re in a slot, it’s harder and harder to move out of it. The status quo is here because it’s good at persisting.One option, particularly if you’re on your own, is to take your development seriously. Instead of simply clearing the incoming and reacting to what’s knocking on… Read More Seth Godin Newsletter – Leveling up isn't easy

  My mission is simple. I want to help successful people achieve positive, lasting change in behavior; for themselves, their people, and their teams. I want to help you make your life a little better. Thank you for subscribing! Life is good. Visionary Leadership in a Hybrid World Marshall Goldsmith Aug 9 “Disengagement happens not… Read More The Marshall Goldsmith Newsletter

 * Limiting data in search of information [ https://p.feedblitz.com/r3.asp?l=179941168&f=1081591&c=7863998&u=5102652 ] Neil Postman pointed out that bureaucracies control the flow of information. A form, for example, has no room for all the information, just the stuff that’s requested. It’s impossible to share all the information about anything, particularly at scale.The deluge that is the internet is an opportunity… Read More * Limiting data in search of information – Seth Godin

  This is the weekly email digest of the daily online journal Brain Pickings by Maria Popova. If you missed last week’s edition — David Whyte on true love and breaking our self-imposed limits, Richard Dawkins on luckiness of death, biomimicry pioneer Janine Benyus on resilience — you can catch up right here. If my labor of love… Read More BRAINPICKINGS.ORG newsletter

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  This is Brain Pickings midweek pick-me-up, drawn from my fifteen-year archive of ideas unblunted by time, resurfaced as timeless nourishment for heart, mind, and spirit. (If you don’t yet subscribe to the standard Sunday newsletter of new pieces published each week, you can sign up here — it’s free.) If you missed last week’s archival resurrection — Tolstoy… Read More Brainpickings.org Newsletter

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   This is the weekly email digest of the daily online journal Brain Pickings by Maria Popova. If you missed last week’s edition — art and aliveness, the ultimate animated primer on the Theory of Everything, the remarkable life and art of pioneering plant ecologist Edith Clements — you can catch up right here. If my labor of… Read More Brainpickings.org newsletter

 * In between a total loss and an endless expense [ https://p.feedblitz.com/r3.asp?l=179801984&f=1081591&c=7853378&u=5102652 ] How much should you spend?For just about everything, there’s level 1 (too cheap, total loss, all money and effort less than 1 is wasted) and there’s level 2 (spending ever more money to get not much more than investing at level 2 would have… Read More seth Godin newsletter