Incite Your Month: May 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
“Seeing What Others Don't” by Gary Klein
What: What ‘insight’ is and what are the conditions in which insight can appear.
One takeaway: Stories can help spark and share insights within a team.
Check it out if: ...you are interested in innovation and creativity
One intriguing article
“Disrupting The Hiring Process: 10 ways you can improve your Candidate UX” by Ria Shroff Desai
What: In this edition of Culture Shots, Ria Shroff Desai, who is the People and Culture Lead at Blume ventures talks about some experiments she has run to improve the candidate experience during the hiring process.
One takeaway: Allow the candidate to prepare and be at their best during the interview by giving a heads up about what is expected of them in each round.
Check it out if: ...you are interested in improving the hiring process.
One inspiring Smartcast
“Lessons in Habit Building and Compounding for Excellence” with Joe Templin
What: Joe Templin has built Compounding habits and written a book called Everyday Excellence. The book's philosophy is very close to our hearts at CTQ. In this smartcast, we cover the science behind building habits including the role of emotions.
One takeaway: Use the power of loss aversion to get emotionally invested in building habits that will stick.
Check it out if: ...you're curious about habit building and want to apply those lessons to build a better version of yourself as well as your organization.
One interesting podcast
Morgan Housel on The Tim Ferriss Show
What: The author of the Psychology of Money on his approach to money, reading, and making mistakes.
One takeaway: “Money is not spreadsheets. It’s dopamine and cortisol.”
Check it out if: ...you are interested in a TL;DR of The Psychology of Money
One Smart Lever
Culture Debt
What: Harish and Sirisha talk about what is culture debt, why every organization accrues it and how to fix it before you reach the point of no return.
Check it out if: ...you're curious about culture debt and what to do about it.