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By Steven MacGregor

With the Chief Wellbeing Officer book released this week, we include an excerpt from Chapter 7 on how to achieve lifelong learning. Being surrounded by increasing rates of change together with our longer life journeys, learning is a hot topic of late, and one we consider of paramount importance for health and wellbeing.

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They said he was an idiot. They said his sketches were infantile and that it looked like a

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child had done them. They were right! He did paint like a child as an adult, but more

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interestingly he had painted like a master when he was a mere child. Pablo Picasso was a

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genius. He was born in Malaga in the south of Spain in 1881 and his family moved to Barcelona when he was five, where he stayed for the next 20 years, before he left for France.

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He said of Barcelona “There is where it all began… where I understood how far I could go.”

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This chapter is about learning to survive, and thrive, in a sea of change. By better understanding the great waves of change, we

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Could you answer these 3 questions?

can learn to be masters of disruption, rather than victims. This is true on an individual and

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organizational level, and we will show how the Chief Wellbeing Officer can ask the right

September 4, 2018

Fintech: a Forc for Disrupting and Democratising Financial

January 17, 2018

questions to help both the person and company navigate safely and successfully. Exposing ourselves to outside points of view and influences is

The very essence of wellbeing is finding, and acting according to, your authentic self. It is easy to

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Services August 25, 2018

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lose sight of our authenticity due to a variety of factors, Learning

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healthy, as is

life experiences, bad habits,

learning from

poor choices, and the

others and

environment in which we

getting new

spend most of our time. We

ideas, but we

may even achieve a great

must always

deal of success acting

stay true to who

inauthentically, though if

we are.

that success does last, it is unlikely to be fulfilling. Exposing ourselves to

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is a Step Out... November 10, 2017

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outside points of view and influences is healthy, as is learning from others and getting new

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ideas, but we must always stay true to who we

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are. As Oscar Wilde said, “Be yourself, everybody else is already taken.” This quest for authenticity builds on our discussion in chapter

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three on defining purpose, values, and vision, and we will enrich that quest through different means in this chapter, including a call to adopt a  July 10, 2018

more childlike mindset. Disruption is the natural order of life – where

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change, death, and rebirth are ever-present. By better understanding the main rhythms and their transitions, we may take advantage on both a personal and business level. Our belief, akin to Clayton Christensen’s Innovator’s Dilemma for companies is that all people, no matter how successful, must at some point leave behind the old way of doing things and make the switch to

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to learn and adopt a beginner’s mindset that is characterized by curiosity, exploration, and discovery. We all know how to make friends without starting with assumptions and judgments. We did that in the school playground. We all know how to openly express ourselves without fear of humiliation. Young children do that all the time. Yet over time our

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a new path. Reinvention is becoming a child again, curious

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innate, authentic, and unique characteristics are

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eroded and moulded into a standardisation of Waking Up to Data Quality

what society or our family or company wants us to look like. During this process we lose the

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invaluable and naive ability to create, innovate,

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and be our authentic selves. Picasso said: “Every child is an artist… and then they grow up.” The childlike characteristics so often stolen from us as we grow, mature, and learn to socialize are exactly what so many companies are now

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asking for in their people: the ability to think out of the box, to think for themselves and innovate.

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Children are predisposed to authenticity and optimism. These are probably the two most

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important leadership characteristics that July 4, 2018

companies are crying out for, yet we humiliate our employees for displaying them. Yet wellbeing and the creativity, passion, and performance

It was said recently that “companies are abattoirs of the human soul”.

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Companies step into our

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lives, just after we have been through years of

that comes

training and conditioning by

from it, thrives

schools, and they keep on

when we

transforming us into the

reconnect with

best version for them, again

our authentic

eroding our personal

selves.

characteristics. At the same

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time they increasingly ask

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for creativity and passion. Yet wellbeing and the creativity, passion, and performance that comes

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from it, thrives when we reconnect with our authentic selves. This is what Chief Wellbeing Officer is here for, and there are signs that organizations are beginning to change. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella talked in 2017 of

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his admiration for the book MindSet by Stanford

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professor Carol Dweck:

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“I was reading it not in the context of business or work culture, but in the context of my children’s education. The author describes the simple metaphor of kids at school. One of them is a ‘know-it-all’ and other is a ‘learn-it-all’, and the

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learn-it-all always will do better than the other

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one, even if the know-it-all kid starts with much

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more innate capability. Going back to business: if that applies to boys and girls at school, I think

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it also applies to CEOs, like me, and entire

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organizations, like Microsoft. We want to be not

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a know-it-all but learn-it-all organization.” Such a learn-it-all approach is often held up as good practice in parenting, where the focus

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should not be on giving the answer to questions

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that children may have, but taking an approach Releasing the Potential of All

of “let’s find out together”, in order to awaken interest in the process of discovery. The process and thirst for the answer is actually more

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important than the answer itself. Such a skill will be even more important for the complex

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problems of the future where there may not be a single answer. The way of thinking is more important, which can be deployed today to question why things exist in the organization,

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not simply because that’s “the way it has always been done”.

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Learning to live has two distinct meanings. First, in a longer life and career we must better navigate the waves of change and so we better

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learn how life unfolds. Second, on the role of

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learning in order to live. Learning is a neverending process. Picasso also said, “I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” It seems he was a learn-it-

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all, too.

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Dr. Steven MacGregor is the CEO of The Leadership Academy of Barcelona [LAB] an executive

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education provider and management consultancy with clients including

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McKinsey, Telefónica and Uber. A Visiting Fellow at the Glasgow School of Art he teaches on open and custom programs at IMD, IE, IESE

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and CEIBS. Formerly a visiting researcher at DAVID DE CREMER ON MANAGEMENT

Stanford and Carnegie-Mellon he is the author of Chief Wellbeing Officer (LID 2018) and

Why Forgiveness Should Be Part Of Your Compliance

Sustaining Executive Performance (Pearson 2015). His twitter handle is @spmacg. You might also like:

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Design For Wellbeing e ABC of wellbeing at work by Dr. Steven P. MacGregor, Author of Chief Wellbeing O cer and Sustaining Executive Performance

Findhorn Bay, Moray, Scotland

As we approach the end of the rst year of this monthly column with The European Business Review I wanted to take a step back and look at this concept we decided to call “executive health”. I’ve worked in this eld the past 10 years, attempting to overcome the inherent oxymoron of the professional norm that is having less health as an accompaniment to a more executive life. The rst 11 articles have looked at several themes, including a typical executive life, the coming Arti cial

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All of these themes address health and wellbeing in the professional domain, an area of increasing interest the past few years yet there still seems to be a signi cant gap between interest and companies who implement these issues in a su ciently mature way so as to capture the available value. Wellbeing has a formal presence in most large companies today, yet it exists at a relatively junior level of the organisation and is focussed on the reduction of risks, including absenteeism and sickness. Is this type of work required? Absolutely. Yet there is another way of perceiving the opportunities of wellbeing, in the ways that it can improve executive performance – through the increased energy, creativity, resilience and leadership that it undoubtedly generates. If a more progressive de nition of health exists beyond merely “the absence of sickness” why does health and wellbeing management in the enterprise still su er from a similarly negative approach? Demonstrating a strong business case for health and wellbeing, and linking it to performance, was the subject of my 2015 book Sustaining Executive Performance. Though the presence of such themes at the senior level of an organisation remains infrequent today there are encouraging signs. The coaching process at the most senior executive level is starting to integrate more of these issues, and there seems to be a general movement towards recognising the need for creating more human workplaces. In the coming age of the fourth industrial revolution with all its technology advancement and digital transformation, many leading enterprises recognise that their humanity will matter more than ever. I’m spending my summer in the Scottish Highlands writing a follow-up to Sustaining Executive Performance. This will be published in the Autumn and I’m excited to share more details in the September edition of this column. I’m based at the Institute for Design Innovation of the Glasgow School of Art, one of the top 10 art schools in the world. Readers of this column will know that we frequently champion the role of design. Above all things, design is human. It looks to create a world that satis es the needs we have as human beings. And these needs, within the context of Executive Health regard a workplace and corresponding culture that support health, wellbeing and sustainable performance. One of the most practical uses of design is “Design for X” which comes from the engineering or product design eld. X denotes the area of focus to be optimised within the development of the product, such as environment, usability and manufacturability. General best practice of design is therefore ne tuned to the speci c needs of the endeavour in question. Could a Design for Wellbeing https://www.thriveglobal.com/stories/37615-design-for-wellbeing

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framework help move health and wellbeing to a more senior level in an organisation? I think so. Having the right tools and methods, something that the design eld is so good at doing, will allow a strategic approach to a complex issue. Given the di erent ways and contexts in which we can view wellbeing, the Design for Wellbeing term already exists and is developed in di erent research centres around the world, including here at the Glasgow School of Art. The Scottish Highlands base provides a set of unique challenges around geographical distribution that may help inspire di erent innovations that can be applied within traditional urban centres. For example, in the healthcare setting, if a patient requires over 2 hours travel time to get to a hospital how may the experience be re-designed? And is there any value from that re-imagination that can be applied to traditional settings? Wellbeing is driven by the Digital Health Initiative, which works with the National Health Service in Scotland and the Scottish Government in the design of public services which improve health and wellbeing through a deep understanding of the patient experience. Experience labs bring together clinicians, patients and technology providers to co-create services that better cope with an ageing population. Designing preferable futures is the vision for much of the research and teaching here and wellbeing is at the heart of that. Greater societal wellbeing is being targeted around the world and a more senior consideration of wellbeing in business will help. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m pulling together many of the themes touched on in the rst year of this column in the development of a Design for Wellbeing framework for business. A rst â&#x20AC;&#x153;prototypeâ&#x20AC;? of this is the ABC of wellbeing at work, which includes: A: Attitude represents the senior leadership skills that can be borrowed from design thinking to create a more human workplace. These include integrating more observation, iteration and empathy as part of daily leadership practice. B: Behaviour concerns the discrete behaviours that make up the daily work of the workforce at large and our understanding of how these habits may be changed. Connecting these behaviours to the top-level vision of the company seems to be of increasing interest in companies around the world. C: Chronobiology looks at the natural biological rhythms that make up our daily lives. In an age where work is potentially, and increasingly, 24-7, recognising that we are not machines and subject to our human biology is critical. The vast exposure given to sleep in https://www.thriveglobal.com/stories/37615-design-for-wellbeing

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recent years is, I believe, the ﬁrst example of many where our circadian rhythm will feature more prominently as a business concern. I’m delighted to get to the end of the rst year of this column and am looking forward to the second. Hoping you enjoy the rest of the summer and see you next year. Originally published at www.europeanbusinessreview.com — Published on August 2, 2018 WELL-BEING

Dr. Steven P. MacGregor, Author of Chief Wellbeing O

cer and Sustaining

Executive Performance Steven is a business school professor and researcher with experience at Stanford, Carnegie-Mellon, IMD, IESE, CEIBS and IE. He has taught over 20,000 executives through the Sustaining Executive Performance program, also a book published by Financial Times Press in 2015, and serves clients including McKinsey and Salesforce through The Leadership Academy of Barcelona. His new book, Chief Wellbeing O cer, was published June 2018.

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This month we include an excerpt from Steven MacGregor’s new book, Chief Wellbeing Officer: Leading in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, co-authored with Rory Simpson and published by LID.

“We stand on the brink of a technological revolution that will fundamentally alter the way we live, work, and relate to one another. In its scale, scope, and complexity, the transformation

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will be unlike anything humankind has experienced before.” – Klaus Schwaub, Founder, World Economic

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Forum

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In a city that is both mar and muntanya (sea Insights into the

and mountain) Barcelona has no shortage of stairs. There is however a set that is less wellknown. This secret stairway winds itself up from the upper part of the Sarrià neighbourhood, starting at the world-renowned Montserrat

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the village of Valvidrerra. Now, if you were to climb these 477 steps you would surely be tired, but happy, and enjoy the best views of the city of Barcelona. Let’s say you devise a strategy to make those 477 steps a little less daunting. Good practice in fields from learning to athletic training would advocate breaking a big goal down into bite-size chunks. Maybe taking 40 steps at a time then pausing for breath would seem a reasonable approach. So where do those 40 steps take you? A little less than 10% of the way to enjoying those fabulous views (and perhaps a well-deserved refreshment in the town square) right? What if we change the scale? Do you

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substitute the linear scale for an exponential one? The moon! We present this vignette as a way of understanding the shift in mindset that is

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is a Step Out... November 10, 2017

happening today in many areas of society, from technology advance to population increase.

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Many people believe we are at a tipping point in human history with an Artificial Intelligence driven near future ready to bring about

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unprecedented levels of change.

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Arriving at the Moon is an appropriate image, with “moonshot thinking” being increasingly employed by ambitious, innovative and disruptive organisations worldwide. First coined

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by Google X in 2010 (now simply X after the group name change to Alphabet in 2015)

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moonshot thinking is inspired by the original moon landing in 1969 – an incredibly difficult thing to do with little actual understanding at the

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time of setting the goal, of how to actually do it. Aiming for the impossible and starting from

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scratch are therefore two of the defining factors of moonshot thinking. The combination of “a

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huge problem, a radical solution to that

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problem, and the breakthrough technology that just might make that solution possible” is, according to X, the essence of a moonshot. We present this vignette as a way of understanding the shift in mindset that is happening today in many areas of society, from technology

Though pioneered by a

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business much of the focus is on grand challenges that face society as a whole. Examples within the X portfolio include Waymo, the self-driving car and

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most inaccessible parts of the world through hot-air balloons. Projects

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Project Loon which aims to bring the Internet to the

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advance to

“graduate” when they are

population

mature enough to be

increase.

developed within another

Behind their Management Teams...

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part of the business, such

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as the case with Waymo and others including Google Brain which is driving development in Artificial Intelligence. The change in thinking where failure is celebrated (even encouraged) and short-term value is eschewed in favour of the deep learning that drives long-term leaps needs a supportive

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environment of course, together with people who have a deep passion for what they are

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doing on a day-to-day basis. Will we be able to create a critical mass of these passionate,

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supportive environments to truly realise a shift to

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exponential progress? Chief Wellbeing Officer is for anyone who wants to create a more human workplace. It is a comprehensive and accessible guide for enterprises of all shapes and sizes to improve

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health, happiness and to achieve highperformance. In an age where everyone is

Shifting the Gender Gap to an ‘All Differences Matter’

focussed on digital transformation and artificial intelligence it is those organisations who increase their care for humans who will thrive. In Narrative

fact the goal is a more human organisation. Chief Wellbeing Officer is for anyone who wants to create a more human workplace.

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Our vision is to help create environments that allow

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leadership to flourish from all levels and functions of a

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business, in order to make the best of the many opportunities in this exciting age. It will be of particular interest to Chief Human

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resources and learning and development will

on Co-creating a Better Future...

gain value in an age where talent attraction and

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retention is a key differentiator and where learning is a lifelong on-demand process. Yet we see great value in the book for those outwith, perhaps aspiring to, such managerial positions. We hope to be of particular use to

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those charged with wellbeing in an organisation

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at a relatively junior level, and that the discourse

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here may help them make the case for a louder voice. In a world where rapid change is the

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norm, leadership by example, and from all levels of the organisation is very much sought after. The holistic approach offered in Chief Wellbeing Officer will allow any workplace professional the means to think on their own life and how that fits with work. Being able to reflect

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Now

on, and change behaviour, can reap

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tremendous benefits through significant

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improvements in wellbeing. The book contains three parts, moving from

Take Back

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presenting the big picture towards concrete action. Part 1 is “Chief” which highlights the top-

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level view of wellbeing, discussing the key organisational and societal issues for more humanity at work. Responsibility and purpose are key themes in discussing the role of

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business in society today, and into the future. This first part of the book will set the foundations

Naturally Selected? Clues about Leadership from the

by focussing on the “WHY” allowing us to address any cynicism over the presence of wellbeing at the top table of business. We establish the human foundations upon which a more enlightened approach to leadership may

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Animal World September 12, 2017

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rest. Part 2 of Chief Wellbeing Officer is “Wellbeing” with focus on the WHAT. We look more closely

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content blocks of holistic intelligence and the rhythms of our lives are presented. The third and final part of the book is “Officer” May 29, 2018

and is the HOW of ownership and implementation. We aim to highlight good

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organisational practice and provide guidance for the reader on the myriad challenges and

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opportunities presented. It is the prescriptive part of our discourse but we try and detail the

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right questions for you as opposed to thinking we have all the answers. Steps have been central to human progress throughout history. The Pyramids of Egypt, the

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second where those 40 exponential steps would take you. Our aim in Chief Wellbeing Officer is to accompany you on those steps as a means of changing your mindset to the world around you. Rather than reserving such a mindset for a technology focussed context what is the moonshot you can aim for in your own life? We hope you enjoy the journey, and the steps you take through each of the chapters of this book. Our wish is that the impact these steps have on

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you, for both your personal and professional live, will result in your very own Moon landing. Let’s keep climbing. Go to top

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Learning to Live An excerpt from Chief Wellbeing O cer. by Rory Simpson and Dr. Steven P. MacGregor, Author of Chief Wellbeing O cer and Sustaining Executive Performance

With the Chief Wellbeing O cer book now on general release, we include an excerpt from Chapter 7 on how to achieve lifelong learning. Being surrounded by increasing rates of change together with our longer life journeys, learning is

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a hot topic of late, and one that is of paramount importance for health and wellbeing. They said he was an idiot. They said his sketches were infantile and that it looked like a child had done them. They were right! He did paint like a child as an adult, but more interestingly he had painted like a master when he was a mere child. Pablo Picasso was a genius. He was born in Malaga in the south of Spain in 1881 and his family moved to Barcelona when he was ve, where he stayed for the next 20 years, before he left for France. He said of Barcelona “There is where it all began… where I understood how far I could go.” This chapter is about learning to survive, and thrive, in a sea of change. By better understanding the great waves of change, we can learn to be masters of disruption, rather than victims. This is true on an individual and organizational level, and we will show how the Chief Wellbeing O cer can ask the right questions to help both the person and company navigate safely and successfully. The very essence of wellbeing is nding, and acting according to, your authentic self. It is easy to lose sight of our authenticity due to a variety of factors, life experiences, bad habits, poor choices, and the environment in which we spend most of our time. We may even achieve a great deal of success acting inauthentically, though if that success does last, it is unlikely to be ful lling. Exposing ourselves to outside points of view and in uences is healthy, as is learning from others and getting new ideas, but we must always stay true to who we are. As Oscar Wilde said, “Be yourself, everybody else is already taken.” This quest for authenticity builds on our discussion in chapter three on de ning purpose, values, and vision, and we will enrich that quest through di erent means in this chapter, including a call to adopt a more childlike mindset. Disruption is the natural order of life – where change, death, and rebirth are everpresent. By better understanding the main rhythms and their transitions, we may take advantage on both a personal and business level. Our belief, akin to Clayton Christensen’s Innovator’s Dilemma for companies is that all people, no matter how successful, must at some point leave behind the old way of doing things and make the switch to a new path. Reinvention is becoming a child again, curious to learn and adopt a beginner’s mindset that is characterized by curiosity, exploration, and discovery. We all know how to make friends without starting with assumptions and judgments. We did that in the school playground. We all know how to openly express ourselves without fear https://www.thriveglobal.com/stories/37610-chief-wellbeing-officer-sea-of-change

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of humiliation. Young children do that all the time. Yet over time our innate, authentic, and unique characteristics are eroded and moulded into a standardisation of what society or our family or company wants us to look like. During this process we lose the invaluable and naive ability to create, innovate, and be our authentic selves. Picasso said: “Every child is an artist… and then they grow up.” The childlike characteristics so often stolen from us as we grow, mature, and learn to socialize are exactly what so many companies are now asking for in their people: the ability to think out of the box, to think for themselves and innovate. Children are predisposed to authenticity and optimism. These are probably the two most important leadership characteristics that companies are crying out for, yet we humiliate our employees for displaying them. It was said recently that “companies are abattoirs of the human soul”. Companies step into our lives, just after we have been through years of training and conditioning by schools, and they keep on transforming us into the best version for them, again eroding our personal characteristics. At the same time they increasingly ask for creativity and passion. Yet wellbeing and the creativity, passion, and performance that comes from it, thrives when we reconnect with our authentic selves. This is what Chief Wellbeing O cer is here for, and there are signs that organizations are beginning to change. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella talked in 2017 of his admiration for the book MindSet by Stanford professor Carol Dweck: “I was reading it not in the context of business or work culture, but in the context of my children’s education. The author describes the simple metaphor of kids at school. One of them is a ‘know-it-all’ and other is a ‘learn-it-all’, and the learn-it-all always will do better than the other one, even if the know-it-all kid starts with much more innate capability. Going back to business: if that applies to boys and girls at school, I think it also applies to CEOs, like me, and entire organizations, like Microsoft. We want to be not a know-it-all but learn-it-all organization.” Such a learn-it-all approach is often held up as good practice in parenting, where the focus should not be on giving the answer to questions that children may have, but taking an approach of “let’s nd out together”, in order to awaken interest in the process of discovery. The process and thirst for the answer is actually more important than the answer itself. Such a skill will be even more important for the complex problems of the future where there may not be a single answer. The way of thinking is more important, which can be deployed today to question why things https://www.thriveglobal.com/stories/37610-chief-wellbeing-officer-sea-of-change

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exist in the organization, not simply because that’s “the way it has always been done”. Learning to live has two distinct meanings. First, in a longer life and career we must better navigate the waves of change and so we better learn how life unfolds. Second, on the role of learning in order to live. Learning is a never-ending process. Picasso also said, “I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” It seems he was a learn-it-all, too. Originally published at www.europeanbusinessreview.com — Published on July 25, 2018 WORK CULTURE, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, OUTRAGE SURVIVAL, MINDSET, MENTAL HEALTH, CHANGE, BOOK EXCERPT, WELL-BEING

Rory Simpson Rory Simpson, a Scot, had parents who were polar explorers and this led to a unique childhood spending summers living with the Inuit in Greenland and Canada and later kayaking and climbing in Alaska, Finland, Norway, Nepal and throughout South America. This experience gave him keen insights for leadership that were honed from an early age. Rory is currently the Chief Learning O cer at Telefónica, and formerly Associate Dean of London Business School. In the last year he delivered leadership seminars in over 25 countries from China to Iran and Chile.

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