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Allison Stadd 🥁 @AllisonStadd

SVP Brand, Culture & Media @shipt ✹ on a mission to jazz up workplace leadership ✹ mom ✹ overzealous exclamation point user ✹ drummer

Joined April 2012
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Matt McCue@MattMcCueWriter
3 May 2023
The best inspiration come from surprising sources. @AllisonStadd reads all sorts of books--business, history, biography--and finds takeaways to incorporate into her creative work and career. They are some of the best book reviews out there. Read her latest here.
The Creative Factor@TcfStories
3 May 2023
Community first, everything else second "Find your people. Not your Instagram followers or your email subscribers. The humans that connect deeply to what you’re building, and to you." @AllisonStadd shares the best takeaways in The OffBeat Book Reports thecreativefactor.co/article…
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“The highest accomplishment is to be a person of generosity, curiosity, humility, and integrity.” — @AdamMGrant #quoteoftheday
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Inspiration from @sariazout, a good set of weekly review questions: ⚫️What’s the right lesson to take from this week? ⚫️What am I currently procrastinating about? ⚫️Whose advice will help me solve my problems? ⚫️What’s my current biggest priority? ⚫️What’s weighing on my mind?
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Jazzing up how we live, lead & work: allisonstadd.substack.com/ #theoffbeat
50 ways to be ridiculously generous: youcangetitdone.com/post/50-…

50 ways to be ridiculously generous—and feel ridiculously good.

I realized—many years ago—that when I behave generously, I feel rich. I like to feel rich. So I choose to be generous. Behaving generously doesn’t necessarily mean “donating money” or “giving away...

youcangetitdone.com
Libraries are a major force for good — love this inspiration from Memphis’s powerhouse library director Keenon McCloy: smithsonianmag.com/innovatio… via @SmithsonianMag

How Memphis Created the Nation's Most Innovative Public Library

You can play the ukulele, learn photography or record a song in a top-flight studio. You can also check out a book

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EXACTLY 👇
Adam Grant
@AdamMGrant
4 Oct 2022
Precedent is a poor reason for decisions. It calcifies the status quo without a compelling rationale. It doesn’t matter how long a tradition has stood. If the old way is wrong, it should be challenged and changed. Progress lies in improving the future, not defending the past.
Can confirm, via personal experience. (image via @annehelen) #worklife
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There are 2 kinds of people in the world: those who name their cars, and those who don't.
“The soundscape of a house is a shared space where we can expand into our feeling of belonging.” 👈 Love this piece on music making a family home thecut.com/2022/10/family-mu… by @KJezerMorton

My Family, My Playlists

The soundscape of a house is a shared space where we can expand into our feeling of belonging.

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🔥 “People call too many meetings when they want to feel in control; those meetings make you worse at completing [the] task you’re struggling with, b/c they’re conducted in a monochronic way, reinscribing systems of authority, obsessed w/ (inactionable) action plans” @annehelen
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The importance of taking 5 — baking in breathers throughout rehearsal (or your work day): allisonstadd.substack.com/p/… #worklife
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"Just like a low resting heart rate is the byproduct of intense exercise, low anxiety is the byproduct of intense self-examination." — Naval Ravikant #quoteoftheday
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This! 👇
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Are you a questioner, rebel, obliger, or upholder? gretchenrubin.com/2022/09/ho…

How Well Do You Know the People Around You? Can You Identify Their Tendency? | Gretchen Rubin

It's very useful to know your Tendency, because that knowledge lets you make habits more effectively, experience less frustration with yourself and other people, and work and live more harmoniously...

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Great metaphor for the workplace 👉 “Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.” — Ornette Coleman #theoffbeat
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What's your time signature? allisonstadd.substack.com/p/…
"Stretch and learn, not prove and perfect." 👈 @BreneBrown's sum-up of the journey from perfectionism to vulnerability that begins in your mid-life.
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Join me virtually next week on Sept. 28 at @Wpromote's upcoming event to explore 5 trends making a serious impact on marketing in 2023 and beyond. Register (it's free) at: wpromote.com/breaking-conven…
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Wow, this is everything. virginiasolesmith.substack.c…
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