S5E13 – Bill Lennan: Making us 40% Better

This week we host Bill Lennan who will teach us how to be 40% better! He was a kit who was introverted and had social anxiety.. so Bill built his own toolkit. As Bills tells his story... Friend: How'd you get that role? Me: Talking with strangers. Friend: What? Talking with strangers is a gateway skill. It enables you to talk with team-mates, stakeholders, leaders, execs, and clients. It also makes interviews way easier. Let’s get into it 04:50 Bill growing up… and Tim needs to grow up (according to Ben) 06:15 Bill working on cars- Ferraris and more…. 07:30 More beautiful car ever made? Ferraris or Lamborghini? 10:15 Life after playing with supercars 12:00 Introversion and anxiety- Bill’s toolkit 13:45 Everything is a system…. And so understand the mental models 15:00 Dialectical behavioural therapy 20:40 Getting use to discomfort- that is about growth! 22:50 Critical thinking skills- is this unsafe or not. How do you look at scary things? 24:30 The value in physical risk 29:20 Talking AI and software. The future? 33:11 The phones not the problem. It’s the absence of alternatives that is the problem! 34:20 Risks and growing up 36:00 Farming and how rural setting change our focus 38:15 Leaders- system, reps and recipes- ‘latticework’s’. The big models for leadership development 44:15 What is kaizen and why does it work? 46:30 Talking people and performance 52:20 Making tough and unpopular decisions- how to do it if we are overly familiar? 55:50 What’s in Bill’s library 1:00:00 Bill’s Powersong! External Links Bill on Linked In Contact Us Email us at debrief@unforgiving60.com Instagram, Twitter: @Unforgiving60 Music …. With thanks to: The Externals – available on Spotify

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S5E13 – Bill Lennan: Making us 40% Better is an episode from The Unforgiving60 by Ben Pronk, DSC & Tim Curtis.

This episode is 67:24 long.

This episode was published on Jul 18, 2024.

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