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

 

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Music …. With thanks to:

The Externals – available on Spotify