March 21, 2022

Hello everyone,

For our April meeting, we will be reading The Great Game of Business by Jack Stack, a recommendation that I received in answer to the first weekly thing below. We will meet on April 12 to discuss - invites to follow :)

The Weekly Three

1. Something about learning and finance and business: I couldn’t stop thinking about the WILD session on International Women’s Day about the financial knowledge gap between men and women in business. Essentially starting from the ground floor and being overwhelmed by the number of resources for learning, I asked for some good places to start. Here is what I got:

• A free series on Fundamentals of Business through the University of Minnesota

• episodes from The Jordan Harbinger Show: May 10, 2018 How to Charge What You’re Worth and episodes on negotiation with worksheets on the show's website

1. July 18, 2018 – Alex Kouts – The Secrets You Don’t know About Negotiation Part One

2. July 25, 2018 - Alex Kouts – The Secrets You Don’t know About Negotiation Part Two

3. August 1, 2018 - Alex Kouts – The Secrets You Don’t know About Negotiation Part Three

2. Something about multiple projects being good for you: I’ve said before in this letter how much I love Alexi Pappas and how much I love Rich Roll. Pappas is an Olympic athlete who has also published a book and made two movies in which she starred. During her interview on the Rich Roll podcast, he asks about how she was able to make her first movie at the same time that she was training for the Olympics. How was the overwhelm not paralyzing? Surprisingly, she said that it actually made it easier to manage her time and not get obsessive over either project. To be successful in both of her endeavors, she had to set specific time to train and then when that was over move over to focus on the movie. She didn’t have time to overtrain and she didn’t have time to work all night on her movie because she had to sleep. Having two massive endeavors at once kept her from fixating on either one in an unhealthy and detrimental way. She also shares a story about when she went to her physical therapist for hip pain and he responded by asking about her face. Had she noticed anything strange about her face before her hip started hurting? In fact, she had noticed a little spot on her face that looked like a sunburn. He explained that the most sensitive parts of our nervous system are our face, hands and stomach. When our nervous system is starting to get overloaded, those are the first places we notice it. If we ignore the signs there, then the body starts shutting down elsewhere until we notice and take the break our body is signaling for.

photo of Alexi Pappas: Canadian Running Magazine 3. Something about sustainability or failure: Sustainability has remained on my mind since the Mindful Materials webinar - apparently Zoom meetings are the best way lately to get ideas firmly lodged into my brain. I found this article that predicted that companies who don't start being sustainable will go out of business. The World Economic Forum's newest index referenced in this article includes "diversity and fairness" under the sustainability umbrella. Thank you for your time, Amber (she/her)