{"id":649,"date":"2012-09-18T15:03:07","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T15:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/?p=649"},"modified":"2012-09-18T15:04:16","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T15:04:16","slug":"leadership-lessons-of-a-rock-climber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/from-our-change-management-consultants\/leadership-lessons-of-a-rock-climber\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership lessons of a rock climber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/changemanagementmini.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-38\" title=\"changemanagementmini\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/changemanagementmini.jpg\" alt=\"Change Management\" width=\"97\" height=\"64\" \/><\/a>Leadership lessons of rock climber: biggest barriers are in our minds and these limit our creativity and capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Extract from Fast Company &#8211; Jim Collings:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>As an avid rock climber for more than 30 years, my whole approach to life and career has been inextricably linked with my development as a climber. I began in my early teenage years, when my stepfather signed me up for a climbing course against my will. (&#8220;I&#8217;d rather study,&#8221; I whined.) At the end of the first day, however, I knew I&#8217;d discovered one of my life&#8217;s burning passions. Growing up in Boulder, Colorado, I had one of the world&#8217;s great climbing centers as my backyard, and some of the greatest climbers in the world as mentors. After visiting Stanford University during my senior year in high school, I effused to my parents about my college choice: &#8220;They&#8217;ve got these really cool sandstone buildings to climb on between classes!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>One day during my freshman year, while climbing a new route on the philosophy building in the main quadrangle, I heard a shuffle of feet behind me and then the voice of emeritus philosophy professor John Goheen. &#8220;Really, Mr. Collins. Do you think this is the ultimate solution to the existential dilemma?&#8221; I named the climb Kant Be Done.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Rock climbing, for me, has been the ultimate classroom, with lessons applicable to all aspects of life, including business, management, leadership, and scientific study. It is a sport from which you do not always get a second chance to learn from your mistakes&#8211;death tends to stop the learning process. But I&#8217;ve been fortunate to survive my own blunders and to learn some important lessons that apply to life and work outside of climbing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>More \u2026 <\/strong><a title=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/47527\/leadership-lessons-rock-climber\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/47527\/leadership-lessons-rock-climber\">http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/47527\/leadership-lessons-rock-climber<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leadership lessons of rock climber: biggest barriers are in our minds and these limit our creativity and capabilities. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[40,43,41,42,35,11,10,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":653,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions\/653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}