Thought for the Week – 14th September 2020 (2)
Month: September 2020
Thought for the Week – 14th September 2020
Jack Dorsey On Solitude, Self-Care & Shouldering The Health of Global Conversation
( Recommended by Craig C)
Imagine shouldering responsibility of one of the planet’s largest social networks. Now imagine that’s just one of your jobs, the second focused on reinventing the world’s relationship with money.
This is Jack Dorsey’s life.
The co-founder and CEO of both Twitter and Square, today’s guest is one of the most influential figures of the modern age — a man who has made an indelible impact on our cultural landscape by quite literally shaping how society communicates in the emergent digital era.
What started as a simple means to share personal status updates, Twitter has swelled into arguably the most important social media platform for breaking news, journalism, and political discourse. A powerful tool for speaking truth to power, it’s put wind in the sails of important social movements. Provided safe haven for whistle blowers. And given marginalized groups and dissidents a voice that can be heard across the globe.
There is another Way
Corporate Obesity
Just as weight lifters’ bulging biceps make them great at lifting weights but terrible at scratching their own backs, larger companies tend to gain weight disproportionately and trip over themselves. I have come to call it corporate obesity. If you’ve worked at a heritage corporation, you’ve probably witnessed the following phenomena:
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Thought for the Week – 7th September 2020
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks Podcast
(Speaker Introduced by Farrel)
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks on Powerful Books, Mystics, I/We , CoronoVirus Dangers of Safe Spaces……
https://tim.blog/2020/08/26/rabbi-lord-jonathan-sacks-2/
September Book of the Month- Myself and Other More Important Matters by Charles Handy
“Handy Gem” Worth Reading and Keeping
Charles Handy has had a most interesting professional life. His roles have included global executive with an oil company; academic administrator who developed a framework for business education for Britain; head of a think tank based in one of the Queen’s official residences, a commentator on life for the BBC Radio, and a best selling author. This is a man worth getting to know.
The book’s title is accurate. While the basic framework is Handy’s life story, it really is a platform for his much broader discussion about capitalism and where it is going.
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