Posts filed as “Learning”
The New Reciprocity: Give and Forget
I was listening to a podcast yesterday of Adam Grant talking about his new book Give and Take. If you’re familiar with the book, in it he writes about “Dormant Ties.” Dormant ties are those people whom you have known in your life – professionally or personally – but have fallen off your radar and…
Listen thoughtfully, carefully, mindfully…then do something
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire.
—Reggie Leach
Take a chance. Ask a question, express an opinion, build a prototype. Fail forward….
No Regrets
If you’ve ever heard Marshall Goldsmith speak, you’ll know he has a signature bit near the end of his presentation in which he asks you to imagine you are 95 years old and preparing to die. But before you die, you can speak to your younger self and provide advice. In his talk Goldsmith advises:…
Have a Memory of the Game Before it Even Starts
Wayne Rooney is widely regarded as an astonishing soccer player – one of the greatest playing the game today. Also mercurial, brooding, even thuggish at times. He was recently banned for a game for intentionally kicking Montenegro’s Miodrag Dzudovic. As a kid he played non-stop – in the streets, in the house, in the backyard….
The Wobegon Effect
80% of CEOs think their company makes a killer product. 8% of their customers agree. Your awesomeness is good. But humility will help….
Blue Monkey 22
As a family we ski quite a bit in the winter. We’re about two hours from Sugarloaf Mountain in Maine and the kids love it. A couple years ago, I would regularly launch off a series of ski jumps in the terrain park. It’s exhilarating. Drop down to approach the ramp, race up to the…
Start with Shared Values
If you work in a big company, with people around the world operating in different cultures, on different projects, with different skillsets and different world views, how can you create shared conviction and vision? Don Vanthournout is the Chief Learning Officer of Accenture, a premier global management-services and advisory organization with more than 259,000 associates…
What it really takes
Imagine a race in which you don’t know what you will have to do, where or how long the course is, or even when it will end. Imagine that once you sign up for this race, you are immediately told, repeatedly, to quit before you even start. You are warned you might die, and even…
Adequate Performance Gets a Generous Severance Package
“There is no clothing policy at Netflix, but no one comes to work naked. Lesson: You don’t need policies for everything” Turbulent, ambiguous times, right? Market complexity accelerating, yes? Here’s a strategy for beating market complexity: increase the density of talent in your organization faster than the complexity increases around you. In the same way…
Balancing Global Vision with Local Relevance
At the moment, Andrew Deonarine is a third year medical resident at University of British Columbia (UBC) He has developed a passion for improving literacy in developing economies. A few years ago after a trip to India he was inspired by the One Laptop Per Child initiative to improve literacy around the world. And he wondered if…
About Shawn
Shawn Hunter is currently Executive Producer & Vice President for Skillsoft's leadership video learning collections. For over a decade Shawn has engaged, collaborated with, and filmed, hundreds of business authors, executives, and business school faculty in an effort to produce video learning solutions, as both an entrepreneur and later as a product developer for Skillsoft.
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