Why Don’t More Leaders Build Learning Communities?

So that's the title.

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So what inspired you to write

this book? Oh, there it is there.

Yeah, there it is.

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It's a nice yellow color.

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So what inspired you to write this book and who is it for and why now?

Yeah.

So why now? Definitely why now? I think we are increasingly looking for human connection right now.

And I'm sure we'll unpack AI a bit in a moment, but in a world of increasing technology, I think we're all recognizing that human connection is so powerful.

What's really interesting for me, when I kind of went back and you look at the history of humankind, I mean, community was how people were successful and learned.

So you think about those early petrographs and cave paintings where people, you know, worked out how to make fire and to hunt.

So community was always the very natural way that people learned, developed and succeeded.

And again, as someone who qualified as a teacher initially at my career, This is the way that children learn by watching each other and being around it.

And then you just go into, I've got some evidence in the book around the natural world, bees, ants, hermit crabs, starlings, killer whales.

It's just like, you know, believe it or not, an ant doesn't have to go on an e-learning course, you know, to learn key compliance stuff.

It does it in the sense of community.

So for me, it was this kind of energy around, this is the natural way that we do this.

And yet somehow we lost that connection.

And I think we need to get it back again.

Yeah, I will be on your page already and my own experience of delivering training and particularly incorporating some, probably not enough, but it's usually constrained by what organizations are prepared to do.

Just the few things that I would use from a community point of view in a training program, even a two-day training, would reinforce the value and the power of communities.