93. How to Be an Outlier on the Inside: Gina Jeneroux [reads] ‘Switch’

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If you were to summarize my corporate career, the core theme would be: discovering the ways I didn’t really fit. I didn’t become an entrepreneur for all of the conventional reasons, I had simply realized that I just wasn’t that good at having a boss. This poses the question: is there a way to be a rebel and stiff flourish within a system? Get‌ ‌book‌ ‌links‌ ‌and‌ ‌resources‌ ‌at‌ https://www.mbs.works/2-pages-podcast/

Gina Jeneroux is the Chief Learning Officer at the Bank of Montreal, and she’s on a mission to change how her colleagues - and eventually, the world - learn and prepare for the future. 

Gina reads two pages from ‘Switch’ by Chip Heath and Dan Heath. [reading begins at 12:10] 

Hear us discuss: 

“It’s not just about being different for different sake, but rather about driving a different kind of impact.” [4:02] | How to prepare for failure. [17:49] | Breaking away from formal learning. [21:27] | Different areas of skills: “The problems we need to solve in the coming years are different from the ones we’ve seen before.” [25:02] | Navigating a world full of ambiguity. [29:38] |“Our biggest limiter is ourselves.” [34:41]