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Heather Longbottom
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Divisional Director for Specialised Community Services and Deputy COO at Derbyshire Community Health Services. Mum, bookworm, beekeeper, and public health fan. Currently exploring how to define productivity of leadership.
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heblongbottom.bsky.social
Sums up today nicely.
A drawing of a woman gardening, ducks on the path and washing drying on the line. The words say: "It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold; when it's summer in the light and winter in the shade." Charles Dickens, Great Expectations.
March 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Reposted by Heather Longbottom
helenbevan.bsky.social
"Humanocracy: creating organisations as amazing as the people inside them": a book that's had big impact on my change practice (new edition out in Aug 25). tanmayvora.bsky.social s new sketch on a key "Humanocracy" principle: impact multipliers for large scale change:
linkedin.com/posts/tnvora....
January 12, 2025 at 1:03 PM
heblongbottom.bsky.social
Here are the books I shared 2024 with. My favourites were:

Lessons in Chemistry
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Prima Facie
You are Here
None of This is True
Black Box Thinking
Deep Work
Radical Candor
How They Broke Britain
Unruly
Hungry
I've Not Been Entirely Honest With You
Ultra Processed People The Twat Files Hungry Thr Happiness Project My Animals and other Family Atomic Habits Menopausing The Culture Code A year of living simply Black box thinking The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team Lessons in Chemistry How They broke Britain What's that lady doing? Animal The Birnout One boy, two bills and a fry up The 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo The science of living Prima Facie Homecoming You are Here The country child Deep work The light we carry Eating for England A Midlife Cyclist Hello World Surrounded by Psychopaths A Year in the Chateau Radical Candor Unruly Mysogynstion The husbands None of this is true I haven't been entirely honest with you Start with why Julia and Julia Slow Productivity Snowflake
January 4, 2025 at 6:35 PM
heblongbottom.bsky.social
Made it!
An image of the Shutting Down logo on my laptop.
December 23, 2024 at 5:59 PM
heblongbottom.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky
#books
#bookchallenge
Day 13
The book cover Surrounded by Idiots by Thomas Erikson
December 20, 2024 at 8:28 AM
heblongbottom.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky
#books
#bookchallenge
Day 12
The cover of the book Time to Think by Nancy Kline.
December 18, 2024 at 10:55 PM
heblongbottom.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky
#books
#bookchallenge
Day 11
The cover of the book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
December 16, 2024 at 9:38 PM
heblongbottom.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky
#books
#bookchallenge
Day 10
Book cover of My Name is Why by Lemn Sissay, showing a childhood photo of 3 young children.
December 15, 2024 at 10:55 PM
heblongbottom.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky
#books
#bookchallenge
Day 9
The book Be More Pirate; or how to take on the world and win, by Sam Conniff Allende
December 14, 2024 at 9:53 PM
heblongbottom.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky
#books
#bookchallenge
Day 8
The cover of Germinal by Emile Zola
December 13, 2024 at 11:26 PM
heblongbottom.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky
#books
#bookchallenge
Day 7
The book cover for Deep Work by Cal Newport. The image shows an anglepoise lamp with light shining from it to illuminate the book title.
December 12, 2024 at 9:12 PM
Reposted by Heather Longbottom
jemima.bsky.social
Just a reminder, as you look outside and notice it's already getting dark 😱, that today is the earliest sunset of the year (15:51 in London). From tomorrow the sunsets slowwwwly start getting later again. (Sunrises don't start getting earlier until Dec 30th hence solstice on 21st.) YOU ARE WELCOME.
December 12, 2024 at 2:37 PM
heblongbottom.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky
#books
#bookchallenge
Day 6
The cover of The Boy, the mole, the fox and the horse by Charlie Mackesy. The image shows a line drawing of a horse leaning over a boy who is holding a mole with a fox sat at his feet.
December 10, 2024 at 7:46 PM
Reposted by Heather Longbottom
ourworldindata.org
The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better.

All three statements are true at the same time. Understanding this is key to solving big global problems.

We believe data & research can help us understand both the problems we face & the progress that’s possible. 🧵
A chart in three parts showing data on child mortality to make the points that "The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better. All three statements are true at the same time."
December 10, 2024 at 1:05 PM
heblongbottom.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky
#books
#bookchallenge
Day 5
The cover of the book Invisible Women: Exposing data bias in a world designed for men by Caroline Criado Perez. The book is on a red background with 2 images of men in green on either side of the cover.
December 10, 2024 at 6:15 AM
heblongbottom.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky
#books
#bookchallenge
Day 4
The cover of the book Many Different Kinds of Love; a story of life, death and the NHS, by Michael Rosen. The picture is of a doctor dressed in blue scrubs with gloves, facemask and visor on holding the ha d of an ill looking man in a bed.
December 8, 2024 at 9:02 PM
heblongbottom.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky
#books
#bookchallenge
Day 3
The book Human Traces by Sebastian Faulks, showing a boy sat on a low windowsill looking out of a window. He has an open book in his lap and another open on the floor.
December 7, 2024 at 9:41 PM
heblongbottom.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky
#books
#bookchallenge
Day 2
The book cover Rebel Ideas by Matthew Syed, a teal background with white letters and overlaid coloured circles in the middle.
December 6, 2024 at 11:19 PM
heblongbottom.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#booksky
#books
#bookchallenge
The book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, with a black cover ans orange bird line drawing.
December 5, 2024 at 9:15 PM
heblongbottom.bsky.social
This isn't getting much attention at the moment but it feels important. Worth a read and response, I think.
shaunlintern.bsky.social Shaun Lintern @shaunlintern.bsky.social · Nov 26
The consultation to regulate NHS managers has opened. You can respond directly here: www.gov.uk/government/c...
Leading the NHS: proposals to regulate NHS managers
www.gov.uk
December 4, 2024 at 10:54 PM
Reposted by Heather Longbottom
davidbuckle.bsky.social
Ethnic minority comms professionals are leaving NHS roles due to poor relationships with managers, lack of career progression and structural racism. Well done @nhsconfed.bsky.social, NHS Providers & the Centre for Health Communications Research for highlighting.
www.nhsconfed.org/news/new-res...
New research reveals NHS risks exodus of ethnic minority talent
The survey revealed ethnic minority communicators are now disillusioned and leaving due to negative experiences.
www.nhsconfed.org
December 2, 2024 at 5:00 PM
heblongbottom.bsky.social
It's Friday! The week has consisted of a lovely mix of remote and in person work, including a great planning session with our divisional team. Love seeing how we keep making links between our different services. Lots of talk of co-location, pathway alignment, and maximising digital opportunities.
November 22, 2024 at 7:05 AM
heblongbottom.bsky.social
Too hard to come up with a profound first post, so instead here are a few facts about me:
• I've worked in healthcare all my career
• I am very interested in workplace cultures and productive leadership
• I'd like to write a book one day
• I keep bees and chickens, and
• I have 2 Blue Peter badges!
November 19, 2024 at 7:29 PM