Incite Your Month: June 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

“The 360 Degree Leader” by John C. Maxwell

What: How to practice leadership from any corner of the organization

One takeaway: Leadership is essentially about influence.

Check it out if: ...you are interested in the basics of management and influence

One intriguing article

“A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says?” by Steven Johnson

What: A long read on how language models and neural networks are enabling AI programs to get better at language generation.

One takeaway: GPT-3’s intelligence is more ‘bottom-up’ than previous approaches, which had more hard-coded assumptions about the world.

Check it out if: ...you are interested in tech, AI, and how it affects society.

One inspiring smartcast

“Lessons in Managing and Accelerating an Organization's People Ecosystem” with Krish Shankar

What: Krish Shankar is the Group Head, HR at Infosys and has worked in various People function roles throughout his career. We spoke to him about his career and his book, Catalyze, which is like a playbook for forward-thinking People functions.

One takeaway: Apply the Jobs to be Done framework to the various People functions.

Check it out if: ...you're curious about how HR can reimagine its role.

One Smart Lever

Culture Repository

What: Harish and Ramanand talk about Culture repository - what is it, why does every org. need one and how should you think about building one for your company.

Check it out if: ...you care about building and propagating org. culture.