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The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk

277: Tom Goodwin - Life Advice From The #1 Influencer On LinkedIn

The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk

Ryan Hawk

Business, Careers, Management

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk

Episode #277: Tom Goodwin - Life Advice From The #1 Influencer On LinkedIn

Show Notes:

  • Commonalities of sustaining excellence:
    • Confidence + Conviction
    • Ability to make quick decisions with limited amounts of information
    • Faith in their judgement
  • "There is a feeling in the room when a quality leader walks in. A charisma, an energy, a presence."
  • How does one develop charisma?
    • "Introversion is more interesting to me.  Great presenters are introverts.  They are empathetic and think of the audience first."
  • There is "cultural permission" when you're on stage.  The audience is rooting for you to succeed.  Use that energy and positive vibes
  • The importance of a proper introduction
  • Head of Innovation at Zenith.  What does that entail?  "An observer. Reading a lot.  Gain perspective through a lot of global travel. You learn more from countries outside of the U.S. where we have everything that we could want or need."
  • How he became the #1 Influencer on LinkedIn?
    • First, look for the differences in commonality vs causation.  There is a difference
    • "I orchestrate a conversation on LinkedIn.  I facilitate it through my articles.  I don't claim to know everything."
    • "I got quite irritated.  I got fired at my job for being outspoken.  I started sharing my beliefs and it caught on."
    • "Because I wasn't filtered, it hit a nerve with people.  I am not careful with my words."
  • How to gain support for your passion/side hustle while working at a big company
    • "Encouraging this attracts great candidates and helps retain top talent."
    • "Senior management needs to support and encourage it.  If they have envy or are insecure, then it won't work."
  • "Large companies need to understand why they got big.  Those reasons may not be what gets them to the next level.  We need to rethink rigidity."
  • "Life is about creating good problems."
  • "We need to create a culture of progressive criticism."
    • The Apple commercial: "It took 1,000 No's to get to a Yes"
  • "We shouldn't worship busyness.  We should worship output."
  • The reason for writing Digital Darwinism
  • Life/Career Advice:
    • "Don't worry.  Too many people spend their youth thinking their career would take a tidy path. It's not. My career has been quite messy, but it's worked out fine.  Be humble, thoughtful, and empathetic."
    • Develop curiosity - "The UK education fuels curiosity, fuels interest.  That doesn't seem to happen in the States.  We need a breadth of the world. Like James Dyson or Elon Musk."
    • Build a network - "Job postings. That's not how the world works and it won't in the future.  I want sparkly talent that has five other jobs.  Don't be afraid to nurture multiple talents."
    • Have a sense of humor.  It helps ease the mood/tension and makes you more enjoyable to be around.
  • Issue: "We're obsessed with being correct rather than being helpful.  That's not good."
  • Why joining The Learning Leader Circle is a good idea
  • Use the "Get To Know You Document"

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We're obsessed with being correct rather than being helpful and I think it's fascinating to me because quite often I do a tweet and it turns out I'm completely wrong and the prevailing sort of tone of the debate is ha ha you're wrong and I don't care like if I brought about a debate that people learn from and if you know I don't mean fake news but if I put out a theory and it turns out that there's a lot of evidence to suggest that was not right That's a great discussion to have started.

0:25.0

This episode is brought to you by Leverage Learning. Leverage Learning is a great new book by best-selling author Danny Eni. It's no secret that universities and colleges are struggling

0:36.3

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0:41.0

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0:44.6

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1:00.7

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1:04.0

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1:09.4

In leverage learning he lays out the guidebook for navigating and thriving in this new world

1:14.8

both as a lifelong learner and as an expert with something to teach go to

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1:26.1

experts with something to teach and buy it today. Welcome to the Learning Leader Show. I am Ryan Hawk. Thanks so much for being here.

1:41.1

It is Mindful Monday.

1:43.0

Text learners to 442-2 in order to join

1:46.9

thousands of other fellow learning leaders

1:48.8

from all over the world.

1:50.4

Text learners to 4-4-2. Now on tonight's featured leader and it's a great

1:55.8

one it's Tom Goodwin the head of innovation for Zenith Media which is a top three

2:00.8

global billion-dollar agency. He speaks all over the world. He's a

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