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104: Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing | with Liz Wiseman

Engaging Leader

And after decades of experience, can you keep your skills from becoming obsolete and irrelevant, and recapture the curiosity and fearlessness of youth to take on new challenges? Liz Wiseman provides a guide for professionals seeking personal renewal, as well as for all leaders who must ensure their workforce remains vital and competitive.

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Why Learning Beats Knowing

Eric Jacobson

Liz Wiseman 's book, Rookie Smarts , is all about living and working perpetually on a learning curve. Something magical happens when a skilled veteran successfully re-learns her/his rookie smarts and is still able to retain her/his veteran acumen," explains Wiseman. Wondering if you are ready for a new challenge?

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Why Learning Beats Knowing

Eric Jacobson

Liz Wiseman 's book, Rookie Smarts , is all about living and working perpetually on a learning curve. Something magical happens when a skilled veteran successfully re-learns her/his rookie smarts and is still able to retain her/his veteran acumen," explains Wiseman. Wondering if you are ready for a new challenge?

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Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work

Kevin Eikenberry

By Liz Wiseman This new book arrived on my desk a few weeks ago, sent in hopes I would review it. Leadership & Supervisory Skills Personal & Professional Development learning rookies' Aware of the author, I was confident this would be a good book, and yet the stack of books on my desk was taller-than normal.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2021

Leading Blog

These foundational leadership skills will make all aspiring executives more effective in their roles today and lift the trajectory of their careers. Blog Post ). The Power of Pressure : Why Pressure Isn't the Problem, It's the Solution by Dane Jensen (Collins, 2021) What’s the most pressure you’ve ever been under?

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5 Summer Books That Will Make You A Better Leader

Tanveer Naseer

As a leadership writer, I get asked from time to time to share a list of my favourite leadership books; books that I found to be the most informative either for those new to leadership, or for those looking for new insights on how they can build on their existing leadership skills.

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Rookie Entrepreneurship

Coaching Tip

In her fascinating new book, " Rookie Smarts " Liz Wiseman shows how being new, naive and even clueless can be an asset. We tend to assume that newbies are bumbling, clueless clods, more likely to get in the way and slow things down," writes Wiseman. "But, Develop Leadership Skills: A Mobile Reference Guide. .

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