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The post I made a couple of days ago on the differences between efficiency and productivity has been turned into a superb sketchnote & accompanying blog by @tnvora: qaspire.com/efficiency-and…. For those who couldn't open the original article by Avi Siegal, here's another link: archive.ph/NzBle.

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Exciting new Mental Health nursing posts! Rotational Crisis/Home Treatment Team opportunities, allowing you to work within both our Adults (18-25s) and CAMHS Teams (<18 years). Forward Thinking Birmingham, part of @BWC_NHS @daljitathwal @tammydav1 jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/joba…

Stanford Social Innovation Review @SSIReview has just produced a new reading list on transformative leadership. There are links to multiple excellent, thought provoking articles, such as in the first link "Recognizing Leadership in All Its Forms". Inspiring reading about leadership that creates change & change that creates leaders: ssir.org/articles/entry…

Too often when we talk about "leaders", we focus on people who have "manager" or "director" in their job titles. We can end up undervaluing the role of informal leaders - team members who influence outcomes by the tone they set, their conduct & how they interact with others in the team. They often play an outsize role in how teams perform. In this article from @HarvardBiz, sporting superstar @TomBrady & Harvard Professor Nitin Nohria distil seven behaviours from the best team leaders (informal & formal): 1) Put the team first, even in situations where you don't get the outcomes you want personally 2) Show appreciation for unsung colleagues 3) Set the standard and support others to do better 4) Recognise that each teammate is unique & work out their motivations & preferences 5) Understand and complement the style of the formal leader 6) Recognise & counteract the external forces that can cause selfish behaviour 7) Create shared experiences with other team members outside the daily work environment hbr.org/2024/09/tom-br…. I paired the article with a quote from Margaret Carty.

"Corporate antibodies" are people or processes within an organisation that resist new ideas & innovations, often with a good intention to protect it from risk. They're called “antibodies” as they seek to neutralise changes they perceive as threats to the status quo and make it very difficult to improve practices & behaviours. Approaches to build a positive environment for change: 1) Work hard to engage people who might block 2) Build a culture of psychological safety so people can voice their concerns & suggestions without fear of backlash 3) Provide support & resources to those who need help navigating the change process 4) Celebrate success: progress & milestones 5) Foster collaboration across teams 6) Identify "change champions" who can help maintain momentum and enthusiasm for the change 7) Establish a feedback loop & continuous learning system: bradenkelley.com/2023/09/how-to…. Via @innovate. By Stefan Lindegaard.

In red - people who agree with Nigel Farage. In green - people who disagree with Nigel Farage. This is who we really are…

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Earlier this week, Michelle and I called our friend @KamalaHarris. We told her we think she’ll make a fantastic President of the United States, and that she has our full support. At this critical moment for our country, we’re going to do everything we can to make sure she wins in November. We hope you’ll join us.

@bexster6 Happy Birthday Becky and welcome to the best decade!

It's been a good 50th birthday #hardrock

@pritchardkate What is the name of the bookshop?

Gillian Wearing’s statue of Suffragist leader Millicent Fawcett, 2018, Parliament Square, London. The words are a quote from Fawcett on the death of suffragette Emily Wilding Davison, who stepped in front of the King’s horse at the Derby, 1913 #WomensArt

Cécile Nobrega (1919 – 2013), Guyanese-born UK poet, playwright, composer, activist who led a 15-year campaign to establish the 1st public statue of a Black woman to be on permanent display in England - 'Bronze Woman', Stockwell, London #WomensArt

Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784). Born in West Africa, she was kidnapped and sold into slavery at the age of seven, she later became the first published African-American female poet #WomensArt

´Fucketyfucketyfuckfuckfuck´ by Annie Taylor from PEG - the Profanity Embroidery Group, Whitstable, UK, known for their stitching and swearing #WomensArt #FridayFeeling

Big Mama Thornton (1926-1984), influential US rhythm-and-blues singer and songwriter, who recorded the song "Hound Dog" before Elvis and was openly a lesbian. #WomensArt

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If we want people to change what they do, nothing equals the power of peer-to-peer influence. We need to move away from "change management" practices that assume that people will change their minds, attitudes or mindsets via rational understanding, data or emotional engagement. Rather, we should work with peer networks to shape cultures, create behavioural change, establish new rules &/or styles of working: linkedin.com/posts/leandroh…. By @LeandroEHerrero