Working More Hours

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In Today’s Must-Reads:

📲 Cool iPhone tricks from an ex apple employee 🅿 Strategic Tips: 9p’s process to improve your business 📈 Retention is the new growth (and a few ideas)🐝 Importance of society to bees and the world 🧠 & The neuroscience behind the Pumpkin Spice Latte📖 You are invited: I have a chapter in the new ‘the performance brand’ book that launches in September, you are personally invited to the virtual launch party.

LinkedIn Poll

Thanks for those who participated in my LinkedIn Poll, it seems pretty clear you are likely working more hours from home. Right now I would recommend looking over your schedule and calendar and book out some time for more walks and breaks, I know it might not seem easy to do but it’s an important step to building boundaries!

Must Reads

  1. Leadership & Culture: How to identify & change from a bad leader 👩‍💼- Link

  2. Retain To Grow: Retention is the new growth for many companies in 2020, here are a few tests or ideas for you to copy 💯 - Link

  3. 9ps not 4: How the 9p’s process Problem, Pick, Plan, Prepare, Predict, Present, Preview, Prove, Proof can help you and your business 👏 - Link

  4. Misguided: In the UK we saw an eye-opening reality-documentary series into fast fashion with a well-known brand, here’s why it’s damaging the whole industry 👗 - Link (PS the documentary does prove there is such a thing as bad PR)

  5. X: Why adult content and sites are thriving; they are helping people through lockdown, it’s down to the 🧠 - Link

  6. How The Pumpkin Spice Latte Leverages The Neuroscience of Taste and Memory 🍵 - Link

  7. Depression: Unfortunately lockdown has increased depression in adults, now almost 1 in 5 have experienced depression during lockdown 😞- LinkIf you have or are struggling please do try and find out your triggers, walking, talking it through, and being active really does help. Charities like Samaritans (Call 116 123) are great if you are struggling. Alternatively please happily reach (contact details at the bottom) out to me directly if you want to talk to someone.

  8. Life: Bee’s are often studied by humans as their all controlled by and live for the hive, this is why bees need social immunity and we crave it too 🐝 - Link

  9. Impostor syndrome: "You're never going to get over it. You just deal with it differently."​ 🎙 - Link Important and Sage advice for anyone having one of those moments or days

  10. Breaking Chicken and Egg: How Uber broke their scaling issues 🚕 - Link

  11. Got an iPhone? Here are 3 tricks you likely didn’t know you could do 📱- Link

  12. Google is coming for university degrees, for a fraction of the cost & in six months 🏫 - Link Google has been planning this for years, if it helps the right people who don’t have the same opportunity great but with their track records let’s wait and see who and how they benefit.

  13. Two-Sports Must Reads - NBA has 5 barbers in the bubble while in lockdown 💈 - Link // “Is that the captain of Wrexham delivering my food?” How lockdown and furloughing have impacted lower league football players 🚚 - Link

  14. The Marketing Must-Reads: - Mars neuroscientist suggests you have just 2 seconds to make the impact // - PowerPoint skills finally taking over Instagram // - Google controls the web & Mozilla - FYI beware insta DM’s aren’t encrypted // - Probably the best boxing, UFC and gaming ad in a long time // Good breakdown of why physical isn’t dead to gen z’s // Find out about shadow traffic // Instagram has now rolled out suggested posts when you finish scrolling friends content //

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Thanks for reading, I’ll see you next week.

Danny Denhard

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