Rookie Smarts

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Rookie Smarts Liz Wiseman

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Rookie Smarts

Liz Wiseman

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When we are stretched to reach beyond our current capabilities, we can open ourselves to learning from everyone and tap into a different mindset-this is what I call rookie smarts.

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The total information in the world doubles every 18 months now.

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Truth is eternal, knowledge is fleeting, as the pace of discovery quickens, what we learned yesterday is no longer relevant today.

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Knowledge becomes obsolete at the rate of 15 % per year. In tech industry that’s as high as 30 %.

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Those who cling to the mastery model are doomed to fail in today’s world. Many will feel overwhelmed and exhausted as work expands to fill available space.

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The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, but it is the illusion of knowledge.

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Rookie smarts is also for leaders who must ensure their workforce remains vital and competitive.

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The most important quality leaders can infuse into their organizations is the ability to learn.

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In an environment of learning, the most valuable currency is influence and not power.

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Rookies inside your company maybe the most valuable players. We gravitate towards experts because they represent safety, comfort and certainty.

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Several researchers have shown a link between experience and greater powers of intuition.

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A 2007 study in Europe showed that the ability to mobilize the skills and competencies of people has a bigger impact on performance versus experience.

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A company culture is created by the everyday choices that people make.

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The best innovators display the following: Questioning,Observing,Networking and experimenting. Rookies are natural at this.

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Bill gates said “ success is a lousy teacher, it seduces smart people into thinking that they cannot lose”

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Experience creates blind spots, with experience people stop seeing new perspectives.

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As we build success, we come face to face with a dilemma – to stand secure in the certain zone or to venture outside into an uncertain, hostile world.

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How many more victories would be ours if we didn’t overprescribe the plays? Should leaders simply describe the goal and turn their people loose?

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Act boldly and recover quickly

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Here are three ways to increase your mental capacity to see : 1. Ask naïve questions, 2. Get a fresh start, 3.Release your resources.

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If we become humble about how little we now, we may be eager to learn.

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People are pattern seekers, we form beliefs about the world based on our experience.

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In complex environments, winning organizations tap into the greatest number of brains.

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Curiosity grows from a deep seated belief that what you don’t know is more interesting than what you know.

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Clinical psychologist Henry Cloud said “ Certainty is one of the weakest positions in life , curiosity the most powerful. Certainty prohibits learning curiosity fuels change.

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Humility allows for the development of coachability and teachability.

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Effective leadership is like holding the strings of a kite, the leaders steadies the string, providing just enough tension to guide the talent as it soars.

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Leaders give people space to fail.

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Leaders must let people strike a balance between letting people learn and protecting them from their mistakes when they fail in the learning process.

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The following are three strategies for leading a learning revival in your organization: 1. rethink talent management, 2. Give rookies a voice, 3.Lead with veteran executives.

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As education levels go up, curiosity levels go down!!

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Too many people are stuck trying to climb the corporate ladder, when they would be much happier climbing up new learning curves.