The triangle of engagement, The five-dimensional curiosity scale revised, The ecosystem economy.

Welcome to the 42nd 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.

Let’s dive in!

One “must read” for this week

“The Triangle of Engagement” by Rishad Tobaccowala .

How to engage with teams and colleagues in meaningful ways in a world of distributed and unbundled work, rapid acceleration of the speed of work, increasing burnout, and a workplace with four different generations, each with different mindsets and expectations? With curiosity, empathy, and generosity.

Personal development

• The five-dimensional curiosity scale revised.
• Inversion: the crucial thinking skill nobody ever taught you.
• Life lessons from 1,000 years.
• Visualizing the odds of dying from various accidents.
• If you recognize seven shades of black, you must avoid "the curse" of knowledge.
• The four horsemen: criticism, contempt, defensiveness, & stonewalling.
• Bored at work? Your brain is trying to warn you.
• All success is a lagging indicator.

Innovation

• The ecosystem economy.
• AI text classifier.
• These are the three vital technology trends no company can afford to ignore in 2023 (and one they can).
• On deglobalisation and polycrisis.
• Banking in the metaverse – the next frontier for financial services.
• Pull, don’t push: how catalysts overcome barriers and drive product adoption.
• Thread on tracing back huge consumer apps to the first Reddit post about them.
• Is your innovation project condemned to succeed?

Leadership and management

• The triangle of engagement.
• You’ve reached an inflection point in your career. What now?
• 79% of isolated employees left within two years: work with people networks to win on retention.
• Research: why leaders should be open about their flaws.
• Why great leaders take humor seriously.
• Attributes of a powerful question.
• Psychological safety: work as imagined vs. work as done.
• Learning down to train up: mentors are more effective when they value insights from below.

One book

“8 Rules of Love” by Jay Shetty.