Friday Selection Box: 13th May 2022

Managers, what are you doing about change exhaustion?

Great suggestions for four ways to reduce change exhaustion

  1. Pause to acknowledge change, and the discomfort that comes with it
  2. Adopt the mantra, ‘I am a person who is learning ______’ 
  3. Make a plan from which you will deviate
  4. Invest in rituals

On Tyranny: twenty lessons from the twentieth century

A short, life changing book by historian Timothy Snyder

  1. Do not obey in advance
  2. Defend institutions
  3. Beware the one-party state
  4. Take responsibility for the face of the world
  5. Remember professional ethics’

Five Elements of High Performing Remote & Hybrid Work Environments

When it comes to creating amazing workplaces and high-performing teams, researchers have highlighted three psychological needs: relatedness, competence, and autonomy.

Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us

This is an old RSA Animate but seems appropriate with what’s going on in the cultural sector at the moment. Give people a mechanical task and they will spend time worrying about the right answer…I leave you to work out what I’m talking about!

 Challenge, mastery and making a difference…

Build: An unorthodox guide to making things worth making

Tony Fadell has made more cool stuff than almost anyone else in the history of Silicon Valley, and in Build he tells us how. This is the most fun – and the most fascinating – memoir of curiosity and invention that I’ve ever read.’

Malcolm Gladwell

Althea McNish: Colour is Mine

A glorious exhibition at the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow (north east London) about the ground breaking textile designer.

Image credit: William Morris Gallery/Althea McNish