Peter Sheahan is founder and CEO of ChangeLabs™, a global consultancy delivering large-scale behavioral change projects for clients such as Apple and IBM, Peter Sheahan has worked with some of the world’s leading brands in the area of innovation and change.
He joined us to talk about his latest, maybe greatest, book: Making It Happen: Turning Good Ideas into Great Results.
You can listen at this link. You can read highlights from our conversation here.
Peter's a leader. It made sense, then, to ask him:
Readers are leaders. Jim Rohn says that, I just quote him. You're a leader. What are you reading these days?
And he answered:
I’ve given up kinda reading the really general books. I’m much more into reading the very deep, very narrow, highly-researched pieces of work.
The best book I‘ve read lately is a book called Where Good Ideas Come From. It deals with a fascinating exploration of how idea generation, like rally breakthrough innovations, really mimics evolution in nature.
Even though my world is about once you’ve got a good idea, a crucial part of my work is helping people come up with ideas as well.
I’m reading a lot of stuff about innovation and execution.
I really do believe it’s not about talking a big game; it’s about execution and getting things done. I’m reading anything that helps companies develop cultures, processes, systems that create a culture of execution.
For me now it’s really about tactics and how to get things done.
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Leaders are readers.
That is how you create a culture of learning as Gary Harpst talked about in an earlier show. That culture of learning is critical if you want to continually learn new tools and resources and skills and master more talents. That is how you discover new solutions for the new challenges that your growth will bring.
That is also how you develop a culture of leaders. Learners are leaders. Reading is one way you learn. Reading what leaders read is one way you accelerate that learning, accelerate that leading for yourself and your company.
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