E5: Disciplined Experimentation with Colin Hunter

Colin Hunter is the CEO of Potential Squared International which delivers high impact leadership assessment and development solutions. Their purpose is to create a measurable global playground that disrupts the way people are led and to uncover heroes, innovators, and future leaders. With over 70 consultants based in the UK, Europe, USA, India, Asia and South Africa, Potential Squared International is truly a global team. 

Key Takeaways from this Episode:

Experimentation 

· We need to create a fun playground to develop leaders.

· Creating a place to experiment. A playground can help you with your fear of failure. You want to help people learn how to make mistakes, learn fast and then grow.

· When things are going well, go and tell your client when things are going badly run and tell your client.

· Do experiments, have a hypothesis, and then evaluate.

Authenticity 

· I felt like I was being listened to and I became myself for the first time.

· Authenticity is changeable; it's not what you always are, it’s who you are becoming too.

· Many leaders adopt other people's metrics. They don't take time to think about their own leading indicators and their own measures of success.

Creating Disciplines in Business & Leadership

· Don’t work in circles. Keep the operating rhythm of the business going. Put in place rigor, discipline, systems and habits.

· We don't rise to the level of objectives; we fall to the level of our systems.

· With a control freak if you remove the control all you’ve got is the freak.

· Making the case to create an advisory board (especially for Founder/CEO’s) and creating a client advisory board to co-create and collaborate on new products and ideas.

· A core part of leadership is having the systems and disciplines in place to be mentally and physically fit and healthy.

The Lord of the Rings can guide your leadership!

Resources

· Be More Wrong by Colin Hunter

· Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

· Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain 

· Atomic Habits by James Clear

· The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier

· The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek

· TedTalk: Embracing Otherness, Embracing Myself by Thandiwe Newton

To learn more about my work in executive coaching, leadership development and team effectiveness check out my website, connect with me on LinkedIn or email me at winnie@winnifred.org.

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