298: Michael Useem - How To Become A Learning Machine

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Ryan Hawk

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🗓️ 18 February 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk

Episode #298 with Michael Useem - How To Become A Learning Machine

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Commonalities of sustaining excellence:
- Thinking strategically
- Communicating persuasively
- Decisive decision making
The power of using real life examples to demonstrate leadership
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
- He was a learning machine
- "We know not the future, and cannot plan for it much. But we can determine and know what manner of men we will be whenever and wherever the hour strikes."
- He was a self directed lifelong learner - "I have always been interested in military matters, and what I do not know in that line, I know how to learn. I study I tell you every military work I can find."
- He had a mentor/coach - Adelbert Ames was his tent mate and he learned all he could from him
  - He had a disciplined focus on learning from him. "I asked him every night to tell me what he knew so I could learn"
- He routinely got outside of his comfort zone - "I will watch myself and do an after action review to analyze."
- Get tangible experience
The purpose behind taking students and family members to Gettysburg every semester - To "stand where Chamberlain stood." And to "get you in their moment on that ground." Recreate the moment as if you're there.
Gene Kranz and Apollo 13
- "Expecting high performance is a prerequisite to its achievement among those who work with you. Your high standards and optimistic anticipations will not guarantee a favorable outcome, but their absence will assuredly create the opposite."
- Being a decisive decision maker and preparing for those challenging moments with an attitude that "failure is not an option."
- "I knew my teams even more than they knew themselves."
- Had a great mentor in Chris Craft to help him
- Teams that are well developed go through experiences together can outperform individuals under stress
The motivation behind risk takers:
- "A calculating adventurer, deriving a thrill from taking a risk and watching it pay off." This is how visions are created.
- How to become savvy about calculated risk
- Risk tolerance is a learned skill
Persuasive communication is an art form
- It's a learned skill
- You can't hide, you must be persuasive as a leader
- There needs to be a solid narrative (story), a purpose behind it
- Every person must know how important their specific contribution is -- "Why are we doing this and what is my role?"

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0:00.0	Expecting high performance is a prerequisite to its achievement among those who work with you.
0:07.5	Your high standards and optimistic anticipations will not guarantee a favorable outcome, but their absence will surely create the opposite.
0:17.8	This episode is once again brought to you by Gusto.
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0:40.3	try at gusto.com slash leader that's gus t.o dot com slash leader Welcome to the Learning Leader Show. I am Ryan Hawk. Thank you so much for being
0:58.8	here. It is Mindful Monday. Text learners to 4424222 in order to join tens of thousands of learning
1:06.7	leaders from all over the world. Text learners to 4.2.2. Now on to tonight's feature leaders with the great Michael Yusem, a professor of
1:15.9	management and director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management at the
1:21.0	Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Also, best-selling
1:25.5	author of seven books including the leadership moment which we focus on heavily
1:30.9	during this conversation.
1:32.8	A few of the other topics we got into,
1:34.9	the story of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain.
1:38.4	Most of you have not heard of him.
1:40.1	And the key to his success in the Civil War and how this applies to you.
1:46.0	Then a deeper look at Gene Kranz, flight director of Apollo 13
1:51.0	and his culture for demanding excellence and not allowing failure
1:57.8	when lives are at stake. Then the three key pieces of advice for new managers,
2:04.4	which also happened to be valuable for all leaders.
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