Friday Selection Box: 2nd February 2024

Short report from HSM looking at the outlook for the world of work with three great questions

  1. How are we purposefully involving and preparing our people for the AI journey ahead?
  2. How can we create the space for complex, empathy-led conversations?
  3. Are we seeing a regression of leadership capabilities in our organisation?

 NPC toolkit

A new systems practice toolkit from NPC – some great models to think with

Building the road as we walk: leadership through uncertain times

Research and resources from the Centre for Charity Effectiveness looking through the lenses of lived experience and scientific research.

Could purpose-led firms lift the UK’s flagging economy?

Good time to be thinking about the future of organising.

Forget legislative bonfires and tax cuts. To really stimulate the UK’s flatlining economy, what about rewriting the rules of business so people and the planet are on a par with profit?    

Control for Surrender: Henry Miller’s Stunning Letter to Anaïs Nin About the Value of and the Antidote to Despair

Another great offering from The Marginalian.

One thing I don’t worry about… is what people think, how they misinterpret things. There’s nothing you can do about that… What amazes me more and more is how much people do understand when you give them the full dose, when you hold back nothing.

The Temperament Index, Melanie Jackson

Do check out the new show at Aspex Portsmouth if you can. It is rich and enthralling, cheeky and challenging.

Through a carnival of colourful, erotically charged characters, The Temperament Index encourages us to re-examine not only our ideas about who took part in the production and circulation of imagery in the medieval period – but also how this might enable us to reconsider the origins of dissenting representations, sexual politics and our attitudes and behaviours today.

Questions for this week…

How do we support ourselves when asking the tough questions?

When did you last take time out to just shoot the breeze with a colleague?