What to Drop and What to Catch
Notes from an absentee that was focusing on everything else.
After an intense period of research (also known as watching the world burn quietly while doing some coursework), I’ve returned with notes.
I know, I know. Accountability matters. Reliability too. And I dropped the ball on both for a while over here.
Sometimes you have to stop, reassess, and make sure you’re not leaving the important stuff to chance. While I was MIA here on Substack, life got loud, in the best way:
Apart from multiple mentees’ reaching new heights in new jobs, new interview processes and many more positive news I’m happy to have been a small contributing part to, I also coached 120 girls in Product Management over two three-hour sessions.
At work: I kicked off another innovation cohort at work with over 100 participants, still ongoing until late June, and I also led 5 workshops on future GenAI solutions. They’re learning the ins and outs of being a corporate entrepreneur, from ideation to value finding to pitching! Same as you guys here!
I went back to school… and it feels that I’m right at home: I did a 3-day Innovation Management course which inspired me for so many posts for this newsletter, I attended Aidan McCullen’s (
) Reinvention Summit in Dublin, and I’m now doing a Strategic Innovation Online Program with Oxford! A lot of learning, and a lot of interesting things to think about!
Basically, I was here, there, and everywhere… and seeing as I’m not omniscient (or divine), something had to give…
Have I ever told you about the glass and plastic balls analogy? Not that well explained, apart from a small example here! So that’s our upcoming post :)
So for today, I bring you 3 articles I enjoyed reading lately, one of them a webinar I enjoyed attending (and you can watch yourself) and give you a sneak peak of what’s coming:
Why Utah Farmers Are Struggling With Mental Health — ProPublica: a problem I first came to know through India’s “annadatas” (providers of food; farmers in what I’m discussing) - 120.000 committed suicide in India in the last ten years. Turns out, this is happening worldwide. I took part in a Hackathon and our challenge was related to it. While sad, it was an interesting project to delve into: finding ways to empower farmers through technology & AI.
And this video (I first read the transcript, so I count this as an article too)
Just before I went away, I had a lovely interaction with
about North Stars.Soon after, I had my own north star to think about :)
In the coming weeks, I’ll be sharing more (and how it’s connected to corporate entrepreneurship!) What I can say is: this will be change that makes it easier to explain & inspire you to disrupt old ways of working and reinvent & approach work with new understanding!
I’m always up for learning, if you want: reply to this e-mail with one thing you learned in the past few months. Can be a small fact, a factoid, or something entirely different!
Hope to see you around here soon!
Cheers,
Francisca
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