Indy Neogy
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Coach & Consultant on Thinking. Former Futurist. Personal Coaching @ http://indy.london ; Business Coaching and Human-AI consulting @ http://enoptron.com
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The role of a CEO involves a broad spectrum of emotional labor, from maintaining personal composure to managing the emotional climate of an entire organization. This labor is intensified by the rising expectations for CEO activism and authenticity, coupled with the relentless crises they must navigate. However, with emotional intelligence, and a... See more
Nitin Nohria • How CEOs Can Navigate the Emotional Labor of Leadership
Mindset Management?
Yancey Strickler’s Nine Creative Meditations
To me or to the mean - Focus on what makes your work strange or unique rather than trying to fit in with what everyone else is doing.
You are your audience - Create work that satisfies your own desires and interests rather than trying to please an imagined mass audience.
Small is more rewarding than big -
Either way, the upshot of the expectations research, for me, anyway, is during a period of change, be it big or small, I need to constantly be asking myself if I’ve updated my expectations to match reality, or if I am clinging to old expectations.
David Epstein • "Master of Change"
Five Strategic Approaches
BCG suggests there are five strategic approaches to consider, and each is “optimal in different situations” whilst "each requires entirely different capabilities, processes, and tools.” They are:
1. The Classical Approach which is appropriate when operating in “environments with low unpredictability and low malleability”
2.... See more
BCG suggests there are five strategic approaches to consider, and each is “optimal in different situations” whilst "each requires entirely different capabilities, processes, and tools.” They are:
1. The Classical Approach which is appropriate when operating in “environments with low unpredictability and low malleability”
2.... See more
Critical Systems Thinking as a Strategic Approach
Different strategic approaches for different conditions
Jeff Bezos in the Lex Fridman podcast:
... See moreefficiency and invention are sort of at odds, because invention, real invention, not incremental improvement, incremental improvement is so important in every endeavor, in everything you do, you have to work hard on also just making things a little bit better. But I'm talking about real invention, real lateral
But that’s physics, and physics deals with the natural. Engineering, on the other hand, is a science of the artificial , and it would be downright strange to insist that engineering artifacts have no purpose or telos.
Maxim Raginsky • Engineers as philosophers, Part 3
Thinking About Thinking and Engineering Thinking
Important point about engineering, but also something I regularly raise about how economics misunderstands itself
Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.... See more
David Foster Wallace,
Nix 🕊 • carry yourself lightly
Allostasis is also more accurate because the truth is you almost never get back to where you were — and when you try you often end up suffering. And while allostasis is becoming the predominant model for thinking about change in the research community, it hasn’t really been applied to laypeople with our everyday concerns. I think it should be,... See more