Happy Friday, you made it through business week 48.

In Today’s Must-Reads:

👀 Why Google is wrong about no meetings week reducing burnout 💪 How Jeff Bezos & Amazon leaders make the most important decisions 🕰 Time for businesses to introduce hybrid office perks 💯Million Club - How the average teen took over TikTok 👴 How parents were broken by the internet and how it works

The Must-Read Stories Of The Week

1. It is time for Hybrid (office) Perks ⌚️- Link

2. Why no meeting weeks and extra days off won’t help Google or your company 🙃 - Link

3. Leadership: Give your team members their stage 🎭 - LinkKnow your team, know your people, know their preferences, know how they can succeed

4. How Jeff Bezos & Amazon leaders made the most important decisions 💪 - Link I love the idea of high IQ meetings before lunch. Decision fatigue is a real problem 

5. Three ways to empower female engineers 🙌 - Link

6. Can Shopify challenge Amazon by not becoming another Amazon 🤔 - Link

7. In platform concerts have taken over, how Lil Nas X took over Roblox & scored 35million in-game views 🕹- Link Twitch were kings of in-game concerts previously, we will see this explode in 2021 and the impact will be huge from a Partnership & Marketing point of view.

8. The Connected Future: How Disney is innovating in The ‘Vid Environment 🐭 - Link A good read on Disney’s approach to the new Disney approach & their ‘metaverse’

9. The top 💯 inventions of 2020 - LinkA good list of important inventions to come out of this 2020. Like the old saying, never waste a good crisis. 

10. The baked-in biases we have that controls our minds and time 🧠 - Link 

11. How our parents’ brains were broken by the internet not ours like they suggested 👀 - Link

12. How the ‘ordinary girl’ made TikTok pop in the 🇺🇸 and how Charli D’Amelio hit 100m followers 💃 - LinkTypically being first to the 100m mark is an exclusive right for celebrities but this highlights how different TikTok is as a platform and how future-forward they are.➡ In last week’s newsletter I raised the double-edged sword that social media influence & going viral can have on the company & employees, this is a good follow on article - LinkBonus 🎄 Are you struggling with gift ideas, here are 30 ideas for the best women in your life 😃 - Link

➕ Deeper Dive ➕ Isolated Talks

Think of TED talks from home, I’m proudly supporting Isolated Talks and Samaritans with two talks from home. The first is the manifesto aka fixing the broken world of work and the second is introducing someone you will likely know, they are a hidden leader and makes your company tick. Click the links below to watch.

1️⃣ Fixing The Broken World Of Work - Link

2️⃣ Hidden Leaders - Find Out If You & Joanna Have Something Special In Common - Link

Jobs Alert 🚨: Friends over at mental health startup HelloSelf are looking to fill two roles, Customer Operations Manager and a Finance Manager, reach out to Andy (their COO) over on LinkedIn.

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Thanks for reading today, go & enjoy your weekend online shopping for bargains and I’ll see you next week.

Danny Denhard

If you don’t know or cannot remember: The Must Reads newsletter is your weekly brainfood newsletter filled with Must Read Articles. It takes me hours every week to find, quality check and create your favourite weekly newsletter.  About My Work: I am on a mission to fix the broken world of work with Focus. I have spent two decades in Marketing and Growth leadership, from before Google dominated search and Facebook controlled ‘Social’ & I was on the leadership team at JustGiving & currently I am an interim CMO and company advisor. Happily email me for consultancy.