Lead Forward: Cultivating a Growth Mindset for Business Leaders
Chosen theme: Cultivating a Growth Mindset for Business Leaders. Welcome to a space where curiosity beats certainty, experiments outrun excuses, and progress takes center stage. Join us, subscribe for weekly insights, and bring your team along for the journey.
Reframing Failure as Data, Not Defeat
Adopt blameless post-mortems that ask what we learned, what surprised us, and what we will try next. Keep names out, trends in, and actions clear. Share one improvement publicly each week and invite comments to normalize learning over defensiveness.
Reframing Failure as Data, Not Defeat
A logistics VP inherited a chronically late product line and banned the word failure for 90 days. The team mapped root causes, tried tiny fixes, and celebrated learning wins. On-time delivery rose twenty points, and morale followed. Share your own pivot story below.
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Systems That Make Learning Inevitable
Design a Quarterly Learning Agenda
Pick three learning priorities aligned to strategy, not twenty. Assign owners, craft hypotheses, and schedule mid-journey reviews. Treat learning like a portfolio with dedicated capacity. Tell us which topic tops your agenda and subscribe to get our template.
Run Micro-Experiments with Clear Kill Criteria
Define a simple hypothesis, a measurable signal, and a stopping rule before you start. Cap time and budget to de-risk bold ideas. Celebrate closed experiments, not just successful ones. Post your next experiment idea and invite peers to refine it.
Build Peer Learning Circles
Form cross-functional groups that meet monthly to share experiments, obstacles, and data. Rotate facilitators to grow leadership across levels. Record key takeaways and broadcast them. Comment if you want a starter agenda and we will share it in our newsletter.
Metrics and Incentives That Reward Learning
Add metrics like experiments per quarter, time to insight, and percentage of decisions backed by tests. Visualize trends in retrospectives. When learning moves faster, so does value creation. Share the metric you will introduce at your next leadership meeting.
Metrics and Incentives That Reward Learning
Write OKRs that include a learning key result and schedule reflection windows mid-cycle. Ask what assumptions held, which failed, and what we will change. Reward disciplined adaptation. Subscribe to receive a set of growth-minded OKR examples you can adapt.
Thriving in Uncertainty with Strategic Bets
Balance core execution with a few option bets that test future value pools. Allocate fixed learning budgets and gate decisions by evidence. This portfolio lens steadies teams through volatility. Comment with one option bet you will explore this quarter.
Thriving in Uncertainty with Strategic Bets
Run two-hour sprints where teams model optimistic, base, and downside cases. Identify leading indicators and triggers to pivot. Replace anxiety with preparedness. Subscribe for our scenario sprint guide and worksheet to run your first session next week.
Building Teams That Believe They Can Grow
Use behavioral questions about past learning, feedback uptake, and experiments tried. Look for specificity over slogans. Assign a practical challenge with a reflection segment. Post your favorite interview question so our community can borrow and improve it.
A Weekly Learning Journal That Actually Sticks
Each Friday, write three lessons, two decisions, and one experiment for next week. Keep entries short and review monthly for patterns. This ritual compounds clarity. Share your first entry outline and subscribe to receive our journal template.
Find Mentors and Become One
Create a personal board of advisors with complementary strengths, then mentor someone one stage behind you. Teaching crystallizes your learning while widening impact. Comment with one mentor you will thank this week and why their advice matters.
Protect Energy to Protect Curiosity
Schedule deep work, recovery, and movement like critical meetings. Curiosity collapses when energy is depleted. Leaders who guard energy guard growth. Tell us your favorite recovery practice and follow for future science-backed routines that actually stick.