Be inspired
You don’t tend to act unless you’re inspired. And time is precious. So here are ideas and thoughts worth making a little time for.
Understanding and overcoming procrastination
Fuschia Sirois is a professor at Durham University’s Department of Psychology. She is particularly interested in how procrastination, perfectionism, loneliness and traits linked to negative mood adversely affect health, and the qualities that play a role in improving well-being.
Estimates suggest that anywhere between 15% and 25% of the adult population procrastinate regularly. So what this means is that about one in five members of your team are going to be prone to procrastination.
Fuschia Sirois, Professor at Durham University’s Department of Psychology
I spend a lot of time trying to reverse engineer either really successful people or companies and figure out what their secret sauce was and then see if some of those learnings could be applied in the context or in the problem that I'm trying to solve. And I kind of come up with my hypothesis that I'm always experimenting and always trying to learn.
Brigitte West, Executive Director of Product at DrDoctor
Brigitte West, Executive Director of Product at DrDoctor
Brigitte West is Executive Director of Product at DrDoctor and Co-Founder of Health Tech Hive, a network of change-makers who are building technology solutions to the world’s biggest health challenges.
How well are you harnessing complexity?
Now more than ever, firms need agility to navigate challenges. Tim Sullivan, former editorial director of Harvard Business Review Press, talks about complex adaptive systems, which are characterised by the relationship between heterogeneous agents making decisions, interaction between these agents, and the emergence of a global system. Organisations are examples of this.
Our problem-solving skills improve when there is a high level of intellectual curiosity and a combination of different skills and experiences...
Ian Constance, CEO of the Advanced Propulsion Centre UK
Are you comfortable challenging others and being challenged in return? Ian Constance, CEO of Advanced Propulsion Centre UK, talks about this motto of his and why it's easy to say and hard to implement.
Decide what you want to do, how you want to do it, communicate it consistently, clearly, in a simple way that everybody understands and then create an environment where everybody can be part of it.
Ian Constance, CEO of the Advanced Propulsion Centre UK
The benefits of being a connector within organisations
Martin Kilduff is a professor at UCL School of Management. In his research, he focusses on the importance of social network connections between people and the ways those connections help or hinder in their job performance, career, and their lives more generally.
Social network brokerage means connecting across people who are otherwise disconnected and looking for those ideas that are important in organisational life as well as in everyday life.
Martin Kilduff, Professor of Organisational Behavior at University College London
