Hey Must Readers! I hope you had a great week. This week has been an odd one, as the world is coming to terms with what normal looks like in each location, we have seen some alternative ways to come back to normal, so...

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Quote Of The Week “A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.” -- Ansel Adams

Must Read Articles Of The Week

1. Solutions > Problems: Struggling with present solutions to problems at work? Here is one problem two solutions framework. 🤓This is my favourite way to help team members develop themselves and then others around them

2. Leader: Here’s how to improve your executive presence 👨‍💼In 2021, a leader has never been as hard as it is today, navigating different and difficult situations. Your exec presence might be the best way to control

3. Essential Mental Health: An important read of mental health struggles from a CEO who chose to make the right step to step back & step down 🧠

4. What Rule Book? An interesting approach by this business leader who doesn’t have HR or IT departments to make his business more creative and free 📖

5. Headset For Work? I have shared quite a lot about the future of the office being hybrid and the next office being an arena, one of Microsoft’s big bets, is mixed reality and holograms. 🗣Who needs zoom, when Teams will leverage AR and VR with a headset - ready player three?

6. Cold-Hearted? How our genes control our tolerance to the cold 🧊

7. Email = Miserable? Cal Newport (Mr Deepwork) challenges email and suggests it’s making us miserable and uses our physiological state to show us how it impacts us 😭

8. Incredible: ✈️ How To Operate An Airport In Antarctica 🇦🇶 Nothing is too difficult with the right partner  

9. For Real Cereal? The world of cereal has had a rollercoaster ride in 2020 & 2021 🥣If Cereal was an asset we might have seen it rival bitcoin

10. Internal Battles: The internal battle of the $5 dollar footlong sub 🥪 Price vs value is always an internal vs external battle, many brands will struggle to keep partners happy vs keeping their customers happy

11. Intertwine: Here’s an article into how the influencer (or creator) whisper made some of the biggest influencers pop 💸 Say what you like about the influencer and creator space however it’s one that is driving brands to improve, to study how branding can be done and flipping how we the public discover and consume products and services

12. Environmental: Allbirds went all in being carbon neutral here is how they are tracking & why so important. 👟 Allbirds are famous for being the startup bro’s footwear of choice and have their social mission to boot, partnerships will be incredibly important for allbirds and mission brands in 2021, lets see if their hook is strong enough

13. Big Bet For News: We all know that newspapers are struggling with their advertising revenues, but Canada’s top publisher has turned to buying an online casino app 🎰

14. Best Tools For Improving Work: A popular post from me a few weeks ago was my tech stack, I have updated it with a few new tools including a new video conferencing tool and a great HD webcam. 💯

🆕 Anonymous Career Advice Corner

1️⃣ Have you become disconnected as a management or leadership team? Actionable advice here2️⃣ Do you struggle to get your message across? Is it not landing? Actionable advice here 

Thanks for reading Must Reads today, have a great weekend.

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The Must Reads newsletter is your weekly brainfood filled with Must Read Articles. It takes me a couple of hours every week to find, quality check & to create your favourite weekly newsletter. About My Work: I am on a mission to fix the broken world of work with Focus. Happily email me for consultancy.