Allison Stadd 🥁

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

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@KenBurns @LynnNovick @sbotstein Can you explain why The U.S.
& the Holocaust on the Prime app on Roku is tagged as “fun”?

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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.

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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: https://t.co/IvXIWjPrKc #theoffbeat

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50 ways to be ridiculously generous: https://t.co/HnpaESu8jk

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Libraries are a major force for good — love this inspiration from Memphis’s powerhouse library director Keenon McCloy: https://t.co/XumluYdAMI via @SmithsonianMag

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EXACTLY 👇

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

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.

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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.

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“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 https://t.co/qA43Trzogd by @KJezerMorton

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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): https://t.co/63KSyQ46Vs #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? https://t.co/94uUDMHMu9

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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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@svershbow Accurate

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What's your time signature? https://t.co/EdIpzcJj5b

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"Stretch and learn, not prove and perfect." 👈 @BreneBrown's sum-up of the journey from perfectionism to vulnerability that begins in your mid-life.