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Episode 99 – Leadership lessons from the pitch and the sidelines with Patrick Skene

Show Notes

Sport is more than just a game. It serves as a unifying force, bringing people together across generations and cultures. It teaches us valuable lessons about leadership, teamwork, and resilience, and it helps build a sense of community and belonging.
Patrick Skene is the Chief Creative Officer at Culture Pulse, where he engages multicultural communities across various sporting events. He’s also a storyteller, writing about sport, exploring its deeper meaning and significance beyond just being a game.
Three reasons to listen
  • Discover how sport serves as a unifying force, engendering a sense of community, and teaching valuable lessons about leadership and teamwork.
  • Understand how sport can replace traditional forms of conflict and build positive relationships among diverse communities.
  • Explore how sport instils respect for elders and promotes intergenerational bonding.
Meet the guests
In his 25+ years as an entrepreneur, management consultant, and co-CEO, Jeff has been obsessed with one question: how can we learn better? Through his work with top leaders around the world, he noticed one problem driving almost all communication blocks: more often than we realise, the people around us don’t tell us what would be most helpful for us to know, including their unique insights and original ideas – and we don’t ask. But he also saw that when people were able to overcome this problem, it unlocked entirely new levels of collaboration, creativity, and connection for everyone involved. That’s why he wrote ASK: Tap Into the Hidden Wisdom of People Around You for Unexpected Breakthroughs in Leadership and Life (amzn.to/49iixhR). — to offer a research-backed and practice-tested approach that anyone can use to draw out the candid thoughts, ideas, and perspectives of the people around them, unlocking smarter decisions, more creative solutions, and deeper, more meaningful relationships. Featuring a foreword by acclaimed Harvard Business School Professor Amy Edmondson, ASK has received early praise from notables such as Adam Grant, Kim Scott, and Jim Collins and has been named one of Next Big Idea Club’s must reads The Ask Approach™ combines the best tools and frameworks.
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Episode highlights
  • [00:08:04] Sport as a microcosm of human society
  • [00:11:37] Why leadership matters
  • [00:14:54] Why sport matters at a deep cultural level
  • [00:20:38] The consequences of lack of teamwork
  • [00:24:59] Engaging different cultures from our own
  • [00:27:34] One size does not fit all
  • [00:30:01] Patrick’s media recommendation
  • [00:32:07] Takeaways from Pia and Dan

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