The Weekly Pulse is my content curation and my highlights from readings, books, podcasts, insights, and everything I discovered during the week.
So, let’s go with some discoveries from the week!
#1 – Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail
#2 – The Great Attrition: Wanting the Best, Keeping the Worst
#3 – I’m a Copy Machine
#4 – Picking the Right Approach to Digital Collaboration
#5 – The Circular Business Model
Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail
Source: Harvard Business Review
Author: John P. Kotter
Summary: The change efforts have gone under many banners: total quality management, reengineering, right-sizing, restructuring, cultural change, and turnaround. But, in almost every case, the basic goal has been the same: to make fundamental changes in how business is conducted in order to help cope with a new, more challenging market environment.
3 Highlights:
“… Two factors are particularly important in institutionalizing a change in corporate culture. The first is a conscious attempt to show people how the new approaches, behaviors, and attitudes have helped improve performance. The second factor is taking sufficient time to make sure that the next generation of top management really does personify the new approach…“
“… Instead of declaring victory, leaders of successful efforts use the credibility afforded by short-term wins to tackle even bigger problems...”
“… Real transformation takes time, and a renewal effort risks losing momentum if there are no short-term goals to meet and celebrate. Most people won’t go on the long march unless they see compelling evidence within 12 to 24 months that the journey is producing expected results…”
Access the full Weekly Pulse reading here >>
The Great Attrition: Wanting the Best, Keeping the Worst
Source: McKinsey
Author: Aaron De Smet, Bonnie Dowling, Marino Mugayar-Baldocchi and Nicolette Rainone
Summary: Employers must be thoughtful and creative to retain the right talent, develop skills to fill critical gaps, and attract new people. These four strategies can help organizations retain the best people, improve morale, leverage untapped talent pools, and acquire necessary skills.
3 Highlights:
“… Well-being challenges and deficits have increased, and the very nature of the pandemic has strained some social support and coping mechanisms at work…“
“… It is time for employers to be bold by, for instance, rewarding and promoting leaders who drive visible performance results and also build capabilities, enhance organizational health, create psychological safety, and help reenergize the organization…”
“… Employees you would like to retain are leaving, and if this continues, talent gaps will only worsen. These strategies can help retain the best people, improve morale, leverage untapped talent pools, and acquire necessary skills…”
Access the full Weekly Pulse reading here >>
I’m a Copy Machine
Source: Fast Company
Author: Daniel Pink
Summary: The new economy is out there, hiding in plain sight. In the process, they’ve written a new bill of rights for business: Freedom is security. Work is fun. Working solo isn’t working alone. You are what you do.
3 Highlights:
“… What’s one thing that all free agents need? Copies! Plus slides, brochures, Internet connections, and a host of other services offered by Kinko’s: The Free-Agent Home Office…“
“… If all this talk of free agents leaves you feeling isolated, then let us emphasize the importance of community. Being responsible for yourself doesn’t mean ignoring your connection to others…”
“… Once you’ve read and absorbed all this advice on free agency, you’ll be ready to give it a try…”
Access the full Weekly Pulse reading here >>
Picking the Right Approach to Digital Collaboration
Source: MIT Sloan Management Review
Author: Paul Leonardi
Summary: Consider this paradox about digital change: Although it increases the need for collaboration in organizations, it also makes collaborating more difficult. Many software solutions promise to facilitate teamwork — but what suits close-knit colleagues may not help those who need to make connections across the organization.
3 Highlights:
“… When people narrow their attention in that way, it undermines the benefits of digital connectivity, but it’s understandable. Given how frequently and fluidly people move from the project team to project team (possibly from week to week), they don’t often build the relationships that would allow them to map out the expertise in their companies...“
“… A common obstacle to collaboration among specialists or geographically dispersed colleagues is that their work is often invisible to one another. We typically see the outputs of others’ work — models, prototypes, reports — but not all the thinking and decision-making that went into producing those outputs…”
“… As with the introduction of any new initiative, digital collaboration tools need to be implemented carefully by senior leadership. But the effort is more than worthwhile. These platforms enable employees to find the right partners for their work, persuade those partners to help, and establish the common ground necessary to make their collaborations run smoothly…”
Access the full Weekly Pulse reading here >>
The Circular Business Model
Source: Harvard Business Review
Author: Atalay Atasu, Céline Dumas, and Luk N. Van Wassenhove
Summary: More and more manufacturing companies are talking about what’s often called the circular economy—in which businesses can create supply chains that recover or recycle the resources used to create their products. But creating a circular business model is challenging—and taking the wrong approach can be expensive.
3 Highlights:
“… High-value products that are easy both to access and to process are ideal for circularity because they require neither a significant business model change nor efforts to facilitate material recovery…“
“… In 2018 Apple introduced Daisy, a robot capable of disassembling up to 200 iPhones an hour to recover valuable materials such as cobalt, tin, and aluminum for use in brand-new phone components…”
“… That doesn’t mean turbine companies should give up on circularity, but they should begin by considering how they can unlock value from the product through a strategy of product life extension…”
Access the full Weekly Pulse reading here >>
Do you want to get new content in your Email?
I am incredibly grateful that you have taken the time to read this Weekly Pulse.
The Weekly Pulse is an important section of this website, aiming to share good stuff with you every week!
Do you want to explore more? Check more Weekly Pulse content here.
Check my main categories of content below:
- Agile
- Blog
- Book Notes
- Career
- Leadership
- Management
- Managing Yourself
- Productivity
- Project Management
- Technology
- Weekly Pulse
Navigate between the many topics covered in this website:
Agile Art Artificial Intelligence Blockchain Books Business Business Tales Career Coaching Communication Creativity Culture Cybersecurity Design DevOps Economy Emotional Intelligence Feedback Flow Focus Gaming Goals GPT Habits Health History Innovation Kanban Leadership Lean Life Managament Management Mentorship Metaverse Metrics Mindset Minimalism Motivation Negotiation Networking Neuroscience NFT Ownership Parenting Planning PMBOK PMI Politics Productivity Products Project Management Projects Pulse Readings Routines Scrum Self-Improvement Self-Management Sleep Startups Strategy Team Building Technology Time Management Volunteering Work
Do you want to check previous Weekly Pulse posts? Check the last couple of weeks:
- Weekly Pulse by William Meller | Special Edition, 2023
- Weekly Pulse by William Meller | Week 51, 2023
- Weekly Pulse by William Meller | Week 50, 2023
- Weekly Pulse by William Meller | Week 49, 2023
- Weekly Pulse by William Meller | Week 48, 2023
Support my work by sharing my content with your network using the sharing buttons below.
Want to show your support tangibly? A virtual coffee is a small but nice way to show your appreciation and give me the extra energy to keep crafting valuable content! Pay me a coffee:
