Human Innovation News: Leadership Lessons, Visual Storytelling Success, and Last Chance for Rising Stars
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Welcome to this week's edition of Human Innovation News.
Today we delve into leadership pitfalls in "How not to lead", celebrate visual storytelling success with Natalia Talkowska, measure innovation success in this weeks video, and draw inspiration from "The Magic of Thinking Big".
Plus, don't miss my enlightening podcast episodes and upcoming "Rising Stars" leadership challenge for first time leaders (last chance to sign up today).
Join me on this journey to innovate the human way.
🔖 Blog Highlight:
Article: How not to lead
Summary: In this blogpost I look into my big list of things that I have written down during the last 20 years. This list is my personal documentation of manager traits and things managers did to me that I did not like as employee.
Link: Click to read the full article
📱 Social Media Highlight:
LinkedIn: Innovating with Visual Storytelling
Summary: In this post I share the story of Natalia Talkowska and how she went from an underpaid employee to own her own design company.
Link: 🔑 Click to enjoy the post 👉 link
📽️ Video Highlight:
Video: How do you measure success in innovation?
Summary: This short clip is from one of my live Q&A's where I answered questions on corporate innovation and in this case how we can build metrics for innovation.
Link: Click to watch video.👉 link
📘 Book Highlight:
Book: The Magic of Thinking Big by David J. Schwartz
Summary: I still remember that I read this when I lived in Sweden and talked about it with my team member Andrey. Unleash innovation with "The Magic of Thinking Big": Dream boldly, act decisively, and lead with positivity to transform ideas into reality. Dreaming and thinking big is one of the big corner stores of my life.
Link: Find out more 👉 link
🎙️ Podcast Highlights:
🎙️ The Jens Heitland Show - Human Innovation
Episode Title: The power of your brain with Liam Naden
Summary: A fascinating interview with expert speaker, writer, researcher, and relationship coach, Liam Naden. We discuss how people can create true success in life by using their brains correctly. Liam shares his journey from aspiring child with a religion-oriented perspective on life to a multi-millionaire plagued with problems, to becoming enlightened about how the brain functions.
Link: Click to tune in. 👉 link
🎙️ Lead and Succeed Podcast
Episode Title: How do you lead with empathy and compassion?
Summary: Explore the art of leading with empathy and compassion via active listening. In our latest episode, we discuss understanding emotions and validating feelings to foster a trust-based, productive environment.
Link: Click here to listen to the full episode and gain invaluable insights 👉 link
🎙️ The Daily Hint Podcast
60 second hints into your ear, every morning 5am
Episode Title: Daily goal setting
Summary: Discover the transformative power of daily goal setting in this Episode I share my simple yet impactful method of aligning daily actions with long-term objectives for enhanced productivity and success.
Link: Click here to listen to the full episode 👉 link
🗓️ Event Highlights:
📅 Next Event
Event: Rising Stars
When: Start February 5th
Summary: A free 4 week Leadership program for First Time Leaders
Link: Sign up here. 👉 link
⭐️ NEW:
What: Did you hear about my new behind the scenes WhatsApp channel.
Why: I am getting a lot of questions on details how I do things so I decided to share more on how I organize myself and the systems I build. Pretty much unfiltered what happens behind the scenes and how you can do things too.
Be aware this might not be something for everyone more for the nerds like me who love systems and details.
Where: Have a look here. 👉 link
Let's innovate the world the human way.
See you next week.
Jens
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