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11/21/2022

My Experience on Livestreaming for Charity

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By: Joe Triccas, Product Manager, Neve
​For a long time, I have been left in awe at the great work mental health charities like Samaritans do to help people in difficult times. 

Whilst it's not a long-term solution, having someone who doesn't know you to just talk at helps lighten the load and clear your head. 

I'm not sure I'd ever be able to work on the phones myself (too many years of customer service roles early in my working life), so the least I could do is help raise funds for Samaritans! 

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11/15/2022

3 of the Best Books on Psychological Safety

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There are countless leadership books that can help build psychological safety in your business.  

​The team here at This is Milk have selected three titles that highlight the importance of psychological safety which help high performance leadership and deliver a happy, healthy mindset at work. 
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​The Fearless Organisation by Amy Edmondson 
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This is the essential book on Psychological Safety. Dr Amy Edmondson shares the research, theory and examples of failure where a lack of psychological safety was a cause. Her work demonstrates the successes resulting from environments where high psychological safety is prevalent. You’ll find first-class insights and takeaways that you can apply. If you’re going to read anything on psychological safety this is our top recommendation. ​

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11/14/2022

Unconscious bias and perspective - Book Reviews part 2

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By: Angela Prentner-Smith, Founder and MD of This is Milk
Part two of my book review blog covers two books about equalities and change that I would recommend. 
The first is Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez, it’s a real eye-opener. It takes you through just how much unconscious biases exist in the world against women in every walk of life, and things that we don't even see that was designed by and for men, that if you put a feminine perspective to it, it would be completely different. 

I think every person on the planet should read this book. It should be set reading through high school or something like that.   
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11/8/2022

9 Reasons Why You Should Create a Psychologically Safe Working Environment

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​One of the key elements of building success in your team is for every single member to feel psychologically safe.  

​Results from an ambitious internal research project undertaken by Google in 2012 showed that the most important dynamic of effective teams was the existence of psychological safety. 

But what is psychological safety and why is it of benefit to your business? 

First let’s remind ourselves that psychological safety refers to the belief that you can speak up and express yourself without having to fear negative consequences. 

​In a business team context this has been best defined by Amy C. Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School.  

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11/3/2022

Economics and the state of the world - Book Reviews part 1

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By: Angela Prentner-Smith, Founder and MD of This is Milk
The first book is Donut Economics by Kate Raworth. ​
Effectively, the author takes you through the history of economics and the flawed thinking that has led us to the near collapse of the human species.   

She explains throughout the book that the way we have continually looked at growth has been purely from the perspective that economics takes from the Earth. 

The measure of a country on a global scale is generally through economic growth. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth is the only indicator. Some of the flawed thinking through capitalism and this economic model is that the market and GDP will always get us out of any problems, whether it's environmental, cultural or anything else. Repeatedly, we fall back to this economic thinking based on one diagram, which is ultimately flawed.  
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