Narrow the gap between company and employee purpose. How to choose your life pursuits. The great flattening.

Welcome to a new issue of the newsletter, “Journal of discoveries.”

Each week, I check a list of hundreds of sources of inspiration to spot exciting articles, videos, podcasts, and books on personal development, leadership, management, technology, and innovation.

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And now, let’s dive in!

One “must” for this week

“Narrow the gap between company and employee purpose” by Isaac Smith.

How to achieve "purpose congruence" between companies and employees?

To achieve this crucial element for organizational success, organizations can apply some strategies

• purpose discovery: during the interview process and onboarding
• purpose sharing: with other colleagues, formally or informally
• purpose integration: co-create and refine the job
• purpose reminders: giving space and time to reflect

By aligning personal and organizational purposes, we can enhance collaboration, productivity, and job satisfaction.

Personal development

• How to choose your life pursuits
• The secret to showing up for yourself
• Disarming saboteurs
• Maximizing optionality
• This is the best career (life) advice I ever got
• The anti-networking guide
• Empty cup
• Want to live longer? Change your mind about aging
• Perfectionism kills productivity

Innovation

• The great flattening
• What the world needs now… is love and AI?
• Art and creativity unleashed
• Agents of manipulation (the real AI risk)
• Disentangling the three languages: customers, product, and the business
• The business case for longevity
• What OpenAI did
• Microsoft Build opening keynote

Leadership and management

• Narrow the gap between company and employee purpose
• The arrivism trap: when successful leaders become infallible
• Middle manager burnout: why it’s a growing problem
• Non violent communication
• Delegating gets easier when you get better at explaining your ideas
• Narcissist CEOs are more likely to hire narcissists to top roles
• Mentors
• Why a neurodivergent team will be a golden asset in the AI age

One book

“Mindset: the new psychology of success” by Carol S. Dweck.