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Leadership

Learning How to Learn Better

Premise In my book Thrive, I wrote about one key meta skill that all of us need to master in order to succeed in a world surrounded by smart machines and intelligent algorithms (AKA, post ChatGPT world) was to get good at Learning or learning how we learn. Learning How to Learn – A Meta Skill I have been following Dr. Justin Sung, a learning coach for some time now and earlier today, he published a video on this topic based on a OECD report. You can watch the video here. He reiterates my point about the meta skill that […]

Leadership

Why Mastering This One Skill Helps You Become a Leader Worth Following!

Premise: The Ultimate Leadership Superpower In a world defined by constant change and emergent challenges, leaders face a difficult reality – the specific tactics that worked yesterday may be obsolete tomorrow. In this environment, the most critical skill isn’t mastery of a single strategy, but something more fundamental — the ability to learn quickly . And even more important is the knowledge of how we learn. This foundational ability enables a host of other skills and makes it easier to adapt, grow, and lead effectively. How Leaders Learn Recently, I had the chance to synthesize insights from a preview of […]

Leadership

Future-proofing Your Team

As leaders, it is our responsibility to help those we lead become future proof, both as individuals and as a team. We are living in a world where things are changing really fast with AI technology leading the way. I would not be surprised if there is a big shuffle or restructure in terms of the composition of the workforce (human, robots and algorithms) and their respective roles in the organization. I believe that it is our responsibility to help our teams stay relevant in these turbulent and emergent future. We can do so by helping them learn new skills […]

Leadership, Podcast

PBTO: Stepping into a World of Exponential Possibility with Sophie Krantz

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https://traffic.libsyn.com/pushingbeyondtheobvious/PBTO__Stepping_into_a_World_of_Exponential_Possibility_with_Sophie_Krantz.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Email | RSSIn this episode of the podcast, we host the inimitable and unapologetically ambitious, Sophie Krantz. We had a conversation about leadership and the need for economic growth and opportunity. We discussed the possibility of creating positive change in the world through frameworks like exponential organization (ExO) and coaching ordinary people to do extraordinary things. In this wide ranging conversation, we discussed – The importance of seeing the world as one and the need to overcome fears and limiting beliefs to achieve breakthrough growth. – The value of immersive experiences and tapping […]

Personal Growth

Learn Any Hard Skill by Cal Newport

Premise: We live in a world that is changing much faster than we can keep pace with. The rapid evolution of Artificial Intelligence is a testament to this. As I talk in my book Thrive, we will be called upon to learn something new all the time, just to stay relevant. If we are to thrive, we need to be able to turbo charge our ability to learn. It is in this context that I really liked a video posted by Cal Newport, that he released at the start of the year on his YouTube channel and would like to […]