Hyper-Learning by Edward D. Hess

Hyper-Learning by Edward D. Hess

Author:Edward D. Hess [Edward D. Hess]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Published: 2020-08-31T16:00:00+00:00


Freeing Myself

I began to read everything I could find on human development and human transformation. I began seeking out people who cared about a common humanity and wanted to be a force for deep love and deep care in the world. I wanted to work in a new way and I wanted to live in a new way.

During one of my staff meetings I read every word that was said to me in my 360 feedback out loud to everyone. It was hard, it was emotional, and I could hardly hold back the tears. I committed to everyone there that I would change and that I wanted their support to hold me accountable.

I sought mentorship from my CEO at the time, as he had done extensive work in this area. Luckily, he saw something in me and agreed to support my development. It started with raw unfiltered feedback that I needed to hear. He introduced me to many people who were experts in the field, and he took his personal time to teach me about self-awareness.

I then began to practice by using work as the raw material to develop myself. When I saw someone in a meeting make a face, I checked in to see what they were thinking. If they disagreed with me, I put a little space between hearing their point of view and my reflective defensiveness, which was my immediate go-to in the beginning. I began wanting everyone to experience the new me, and I wanted everyone who worked for me to treat their employees differently.

I wanted to scale this new way of relating to people, but I lacked the social technology to scale what I was doing. My CEO was leading a transformation that was about the individual, and we both saw a gap in the ability to scale the work beyond the individual level.

After a multiday solo experience in nature, I came back with an open awareness but also more conviction to find a way to scale the transformation work that was changing me from the inside out. During my time in nature I realized that people simply work better and show up differently when the leader sets the field with positivity and psychological safety. I didn’t have the language for it then, but I knew it at a tacit level.

One morning while watching CNBC, I heard Ray Dalio talking about an idea meritocracy and I heard about a book called Learn or Die. This book sounded like something similar to the work we had been doing, but it was different. It seemed to have the essential elements of how to build practices into our daily work. This book, he said, also had the details of what an idea meritocracy was all about.

I downloaded the Learn or Die book and drove to get my car hand-washed. As this process normally takes an hour, I walked over to Starbucks to grab a coffee. A few hours later my phone was ringing repeatedly as if there was an emergency.



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