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How can ancient human values help us in modern age?
This may sound unnecessarily melodramatic, but hearing the Danish philosopher and psychologist Svend Brinkmann talk about liquid...
Kim Newton-Woof
Mar 1, 20202 min read
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How to escape decision traps when fighting fires?
I was introduced to the extraordinary life of firefighter, psychologist and writer Sabrina Cohen-Hatton through her desert island disks!...
Kim Newton-Woof
Feb 1, 20201 min read
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Do I have spinach in my teeth (and will you tell me)?
The key philosophy underpinning Kim Scott's simple yet pragmatic concept of Radical Candor is care personally while challenging directly....
Kim Newton-Woof
Jan 1, 20201 min read
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Should great leaders live like drug addicts?
Once upon another time Michael Brody-Waite wanted to do nothing but drugs. He got kicked out of school, fired from his job and booted out...
Kim Newton-Woof
Dec 1, 20191 min read
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How do you build (and rebuild) trust?
Trust is the foundation for everything we do. But what do we do when it's broken? In her popular TED Talk from 2018 (below), Harvard...
Kim Newton-Woof
Nov 1, 20192 min read
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If you could break any rule, what would it be?
And how would you remake it? There’s only one thing more stupid than stupid rules, and that’s the people who follow them. But it’s not...
Kim Newton-Woof
Oct 1, 20191 min read
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How to take command and release control... of your submarine?
A nuclear submarine commander realised that having one point of command was operationally inefficient and "downright dangerous", so he...
Kim Newton-Woof
Sep 1, 20191 min read
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Are your interruptions really arrogance masquerading as efficiency?
Many years ago, exposure to the work of Nancy Kline and her Thinking Environment research transformed the way I listened. And her...
Kim Newton-Woof
Aug 1, 20191 min read
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Why do you get out of bed in the morning?
A decade on and millions of TED talk hits later, Simon Sinek's deceptively simple yet global phenomenon is as powerful and practical as...
Kim Newton-Woof
Jul 1, 20191 min read
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What is imposter syndrome and how can you combat it?
Why can’t so many of us shake feelings that our ideas and skills aren’t worthy of others’ attention? Even after writing eleven books and...
Kim Newton-Woof
Jun 1, 20191 min read
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What can military tips about effective emails teach us about change?
In HBR's November 2016 edition, I was particularly drawn to a piece by Kabir Sehgal about military tips for writing effective emails....
Kim Newton-Woof
May 1, 20194 min read
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How to become the leader I want to be - at every logical level?
Cause and effect. The law of unintended consequences. Some processes, events, and other phenomena are created through their relationships...
Kim Newton-Woof
Apr 1, 20192 min read
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