Incite Your Month: July 2022
At CTQ, we kick each month off with a collection of ideas & recos from the team’s recent curiosity diet. It helps us ‘incite’ the rest of the month. Here’s this month’s edition.
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One insightful book
“Invent & Wander” by Jeff Bezos
What: Writings by Jeff Bezos from his characteristic annual letters to the shareholders over the years.
One takeaway: What stands out in the letters over the years - long term thinking and it's always Day One.
Check it out if: ...you are interested in how Amazon has evolved over the years.
One intriguing article
“Are you building capabilities across these four critical areas?” by Team McKinsey
What: A McKinsey & Company article about how leaders can drive impact by building individual capabilities across four quadrants.
One takeaway: It's no longer sufficient to build job-level skills.
Check it out if: ...you are interested in how leaders should think about capability building in their teams.
One inspiring smartcast
“Founders' Choice Architecture” with Prasanna Krishnamoorthy
What: Prasanna Krishnamoorthy is a partner at Upekkha, an early stage accelerator for SaaS startups. Prasanna talks about how founders should think about choices before going down the VC fund-raising route, or not.
One takeaway: There are different risks at different stages of a startup: tech./product, market, execution and financial.
Check it out if: ...you're curious about how a SaaS accelerator like Upekkha evaluates businesses.
One interesting podcast
“The Big Winners and Losers from the Remote Work Revolution” on Derek Thompson
What: Derek Thompson talks to Julia Hobsbawm, the author of 'The Nowhere Office,' a new book about the remote work revolution that combines history and reporting to ask a big, beautiful philosophical question: Is remote work making our lives better, or worse?
One takeaway: Office occupancy across the U.S. is still just 43 percent of its pre-pandemic high.
Check it out if: ...you are curious about remote work.
One Smart Lever
“Working Backwards”
What: Harish and Ramanand talk about how taking a mental leap forward can help in creating something new.
Check it out if: ...you are curious about how you can apply Amazon's approach to your context.