S5E13 – Bill Lennan: Making us 40% Better

The Unforgiving60

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