How To Boss It Like With Claire Davenport – Kitty Knowles

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There are a handful of business leaders and industry figures who are changing the world.

We’ve previously asked CEOs, founders and thought leaders like Alex Klein (the cofounder of Kano), Clare Gilmartin (CEO at Trainline), and Justin Rosenstein (cofounder of Asana), how they get so much done in an impossibly short amount of time.

Today we find out “How To Boss It Like” Claire Davenport, CEO at HelloFresh UK, the meal-kit company based in Berlin.

Davenport cut her teeth working in banking at Goldman Sachs and JPMorganChase, before going on to work for digital leaders like Skype, FutureLearn and VoucherCodes.

Today, when she’s not heading up HelloFresh’s British division, she’s sharing her knowledge at pivotal events like this week’s Etail Europe.

What time do you get up, and what part of your morning routine sets you up for the day?

Most mornings I get up at 7 a.m. and have breakfast with my two daughters before cycling down the canal from my house to Oxford train station. I pick a quiet carriage so I can catch up on emails and news and prepare for the day on my commute into London.

Two mornings a week I have breakfast blocked for mentoring or networking. Doing everything I can to level the playing field for people from different backgrounds—to realize their full potential in their career or with their startup—is very important to me. I try to help with introductions or advice or just giving a confidence boost where needed.

Saturdays and Sundays I run on Port Meadow in Oxford with my running buddy, Alison. We run 4-5 miles to stay fit and catch up on the week.

What smartphone do you have?

iPhone 7 with 128 GB capacity (lots of photos and videos). Normal black with a HelloFresh cover.

What apps or methods do you use to be more productive?

I have tried various productivity apps over time but find having a system I stick to with my emails and trusted Moleskine notebook works best for me.

Sometimes I like to be offline or away from my phone. Okay, that’s not true.

But sometimes I happen to be offline (train or tube or once I have gone to bed or when I am trying to set a good example for my daughters) and I still have ideas and thoughts I need to get down, so a paper notebook is essential.

How many people, outside of family, do you meet in a day?

Every day is slightly different. On any given day, there are normally around 100-200 people working at our Shoreditch office or around 200 at our distribution center in Oxfordshire.

Both workspaces are sociable places, and I sit in a different seat most days so that I can really understand what all the teams are up to. I like the variety of sitting in our customer-care area and listening and speaking to customers on the phone one day to spending time with our marketing team the following day.

We keep meetings short at HelloFresh so I have in-depth conversations with 20 people a day roughly. I regularly meet customers as we like to host events at our office to learn more about their experience with HelloFresh.

A couple of evenings a week, I like to meet up with friends or people in my network.

What book have you read, either recently or in the past, that has inspired you?

The Emotionally Intelligent Manager by David Caruso and Peter Salovey is a book I return again and again. It really changed my thinking on EQ and people management. I’ve bought copies for our offices because I think it’s a book everyone can benefit from.

I also like Act Like A Leader, Think Like A Leader by Herminia Ibarra, which is great for people thinking about their leadership style and is lovely and practical.

What advice would you give for people who are eager to get into your industry?

Go for it. It’s better to take an opportunity and get the experience it gives you rather than procrastinating and losing time. You can always pivot when you see what you enjoy about the opportunity.

When do you work until? Are you still sending emails in the night? Or do you have a wind-down routine?

Most evenings when I don’t have events, we eat a HelloFresh meal together as a family around 8 p.m.

My husband or daughters often start cooking while I am commuting home—I am guilty of emailing or reading news or Facebooking until late, but then I listen to audiobooks to wind down before I fall asleep.

I have a history of waking up with an idea at 3:30 a.m. and, at one time, I had quite a reputation for the 4 a.m. email among my colleagues.

After a while, I learned how scary it is for my team to receive a 4 a.m. email from me, and now I just save it as a draft and, if it still seems as important in the morning (about 10% of the time), I send it then instead.

If you could ask your idol one question, who would it be, and what would you ask?

I’d ask Barack Obama for his best piece of advice on leadership and his awesome public speaking.

What do you think your industry will look like in 10 years?

I think more and more people will rely on meal kits in the future as it’s just such a convenient way to cook and enjoy nutritious food. Personalized nutrition will become a bigger trend as consumers are able to access data and food that meets their specific needs. And delivery will continue to develop, and we’re likely to see more and more automation in this area.

I believe my grandchildren will be bemused by the idea of owning a car or going to a supermarket to shop for a week’s meals in advance!

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The Problem with “Great Schools”

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by Ali McKay If you have young kids or use Redfin, you’ve probably seen the school ratings from GreatSchools. Our school is rated a “4”. That’s out of 10. When I was in school, forty percent is not a grade that I or my parents would have been happy with. In fact, there would have […]

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4 Stages Of Edtech Integration From A Student Perspective – Terry Heick

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Technology can be used in the learning process in a variety of ways. Some are supplementary, serving the original design of the classroom and usually automate some previously by-human task or process–grading multiple choice assessments, searching for a source of information, or sharing messages and other data across large groups.

But fully integrated and embedded in the learning process, technology can be transformative–and disruptive. Below the idea of technology in learning is framed in stages, from “on learning” and externally-directed, to “in learning,” and self-directed. This is not to imply that stage 1 is “bad” and that learners should always be given free-reign with powerful technology. The age of graduated release of responsibility model (show me, help me, let me), as always, holds true here as well.

Scaffolding the learning of anything unfamiliar–somehow–is a way of supporting the learner and setting them up for long-term independent success. How to use this framework isn’t cut-and-dry.

Should all learners begin a school year at stage 1 and move as far as they can towards stage 4? (Probably not.)

Can a planned learning experience be evaluated using this framework in mind? That is, understanding which stage the planned learning experience operates within and revising accordingly? (This sounds better.)

Can schools be designed differently with this approach in mind? From teacher professional development to funding and curriculum policies? (Hopefully, yes.)

And further, how can we begin to design learning so that it automatically scales to the available technology, the technical proficiency of that learner, and the personalized learning needs of the student? (Jackpot.)

The 4 Stages Of The Integration Of Technology In Learning

Stage 1: Learners are directed in their use of technology

Asynchronous access to information and peer networks. Some ability for learner to select platform, technology, or even content. Traditional classroom learning begins to be disrupted.

Stage 2: This stage is characterized by powerful access to information, networks, and communities, but is mostly unable to leverage that access without supporting frameworks or planning.

Learners are directed in their selection and constructivist use of technology in the learning process, traditionally to accomplish purely academic tasks that are fully accessible without the technology.

Stage 3: Mobile technology erodes traditional classroom. Truly mobile learners should disrupt non-flexible curriculum.

Mobile learning experiences are inherently unpredictable, requiring varied communication, critical thinking, and aggressive resourcefulness. Standards-based academic work struggles for gravity working against this stage of technology integration.

Stage 4: This final stage of technology implementation necessitates learners to consistently self-direct critical, core components of learning experiences.

Self-direction based on curiosity and play while supported by personalized learning algorithms and the connectivity of authentic networks characterizes this final stage of technology integration. Traditional classroom learning is fully disrupted.

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Can Data Account For Population Growth?

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As the world’s population continues to rise and the average lifespan increases, cities are getting bigger. This poses a new set of challenges and opportunities for government and municipal planners. The increase in population means more energy, water, public service personnel, education and other services.

With three million people moving into cities every week, these services are often needed before any taxes can be paid. To better face these challenges, cities have to adapt and become smarter about how they use existing resources. Advances in technology are permitting city planners more opportunities to maximize resources and providing a new lease on life for aging physical infrastructures.

Cities contain many objects that receive, collect and transmit data, including traffic lights and air pollution stations. This data can be harnessed to implement a more efficient and smarter city that efficiently utilizes resources. Ongoing events can be monitored in a central system instead of in scattered reports that feature incomplete data.

Ideally, these systems would be installed in the beginning developmental stages, but assimilating them into existing infrastructures is still cost efficient, as they can be installed at prices lower than the cost of a new highway or water main because they are incorporated into the existing structures of the city.

Smarter, Connected Cities

An interconnected system of technologies has always been at the forefront of humanity’s technological push. It’s the future, and virtually every faction of the 21st-century tech ecosphere is adopting it. The real estate industry is no exception. In New Zealand, there are plans underway to develop a radically interconnected city where dynamic data about the city, including its pollution levels, noise levels, traffic patterns and even water usage information, would be collated in real time.

The city of Manchester in the UK is another example of a place that’s working to give its city sensing capabilities. Early this year, Manchester city council appointed three key stakeholders to lead the onboarding of a distinct range of tech infrastructure. The goal here, as was the case in Christchurch in New Zealand, is to develop a smart city — fully interconnected and capable of subsisting by itself.

Sensitizing Our Cities

Underlying this drive to grant municipalities self-monitoring and possible automated control is a technological boiler room of sensors and artificial intelligence assets. Smart cities will be designed to incorporate a blanket of sensors at strategic locations in the cities’ architecture.

These will relay collected data to a central database. While fortifying cities with sensing devices is nothing novel, the sheer scale and integration with artificial intelligence systems distinguishes the concept of smart cities. This sensor-laden foundation of smart cities mandates a change from the traditional developmental strategies used in building cities.

Municipalities looking to onboard the technology must make provisions for the installation and maintenance of sensors and critical analytic assets, a feat that significantly ups the budget and complexity of orchestrating a city development project.

A Safer, More Convenient Place To Live

The increased financial implications of building smart cities are justified. When fully implemented, the technology holds promises of providing key insights and curbing the adverse effects of natural disasters and urbanization to a reasonable extent, the latter being of paramount concern to many metropolises in the world today.

In Buenos Aires, for instance, there is already a sensor-driven anti-flooding system in place to check the impacts of flooding that is now commonplace in the city. The system has a network of sensors integrated into the city’s underlying drainage and storm control architecture.

These sensors feed data to an analytic software — in this case, Oracle’s business intelligence applications — that analyzes the input and uses it to generate citywide predictions of possible disastrous weather conditions. The Buenos Aires case is but a subtle implementation of smart city technologies.

Elsewhere in Christchurch, there are plans to collect real-time data from city sensors and inhalers used by humans. The goal here is determining the relationship between air temperature, air quality and the now growing incidences of respiratory illnesses.

This level of interconnectivity and massive data pulling, however, comes with its attendant concerns. There is always the risk of hackers shutting down services, data theft and, as we have seen with the Facebook – Cambridge Analytica fiasco, large-scale extra-legal use of collected data.

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