The Learning Organization

3 Building a culture of engagement and performance

It’s probably not a surprise to you that I love learning, but it may be a surprise to know that I regularly used to suffer from learning FOMO (fear of missing out). I would look at friends who worked in big organizations and feel envious of the opportunities they could access: fancy presentation skills courses, leadership programmes, coaching, mentoring and even those off-site away days where you climb mountains or trees. Actually, not those; they just looked scary. My career took me down a different route, working in smaller companies and then founding and leading three companies myself. On reflection, the learning opportunities I had were immensely varied, experiential, highly effective, ...