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G. Shawn Hunter is an entrepreneur and business leader who founded Targeted Learning Corporation with his father. The company was bought by Skillsoft in 2007, and Hunter remained there, working for Skillsoft as executive producer and vice president for Leadership Solutions until 2015. Afterward, Hunter became founder and president of Mindscaling, and he is also the author of two business leadership books. The first, Out*Think, was released in 2013, and it was followed three years later by Small Acts of Leadership: 12 Intentional Behaviors That Lead to Big Impact. In the latter volume, Hunter focuses on the smallest actions with the biggest effects. Describing these actions as purposeful changes, Hunter explains that implementing purposeful change creates successful leaders and successful teams. Mindfulness is key, the author claims, as is deliberate steps for positive change. Deliberate steps often depend upon habit and consistent practice, and Hunter notes that daily practice is the key to success. For instance, daily practice of inward focus leads to improvement in efficacy and confidence. Fostering curiosity, expressing gratitude, and allowing for autonomy are also small daily practices that lead to large rewards. Outward focus, Hunter assets, should all move toward fostering positive relationships. From inspiring team members to being fully present with others, mindful practices lead to happier and more productive employees. Hunter supports his claims with several interviews, academic research, and company-based anecdotes.
Discussing Small Acts of Leadership in an online Skip Richard interview, Hunter explained: “I would say the one thing that successful people do is that they do one thing at a time. That might sound small and trifling, but, honestly, the way successful people get things done, or have meaningful conversations, is to do only that one thing. They turn off their phone when talking to people. They turn off email. They schedule time for writing and reading. They block off time for exercise and reflection. It sounds small, but it adds up.” He added: “Organizations and leaders should reward people who deliver meaningful, thoughtful contributions, not who puts out the highest volume of email noise.”
Reviews of Small Acts of Leadership were somewhat mixed, and some critics praised the book’s discrete organization while others panned it. According to a Publishers Weekly correspondent, “the work often feels like one academic namedrop after another, and is too dense to easily digest or focus on.” On the other hand, Cori Wilhelm in Library Journal lauded the “easily digestible segments,” asserting: “The book’s strength is its solid, practical advice presented in straightforward language.”
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Library Journal, September 15, 2016, Cori Wilhelm, review of Small Acts of Leadership: 12 Intentional Behaviors That Lead to Big Impact.
Publishers Weekly, August 15, 2016, review of Small Acts of Leadership.
Management Today, December 1, 2013, Sarah Wood, “Books: My Top Reads of 2013.”
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G. Shawn Hunter Home Page, http://shawnhunter.com/(May 31, 2017).
Skip Richard, https://www.skipprichard.com/ (May 31, 2017), author interview.*
Shawn Hunter is a serial entrepreneur, best-selling author, and the founder and president of Mindscaling, a company dedicated to creating beautiful and intelligent online learning products.
Hunter started his professional journey as an entrepreneur when he co-founded Targeted Learning Corporation with his father, Hal Hunter, PhD. Targeted Learning was acquired in February 2007 by Skillsoft, where Hunter then worked as executive producer & vice president for Leadership Solutions until July 2015. In these positions, Hunter spent more than a decade interviewing, collaborating with, and filming hundreds of leading business authors, executives, and business school faculty in an effort to assemble video learning solutions.
The author of Out*Think, his latest book shows how a new style of leadership is emerging from those who start small and adopt incremental change into their everyday lives for big impact.
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Based on my new book Small Acts of Leadership, I have a new “high-content” keynote and workshop for companies and conferences to develop leaders at all levels. I believe every message should be:
- customized and relevant to your organization
- provocative and evidence-based from research and practices around the world
- fun, interactive, and engaging
- pragmatic and actionable for people to put to work immediately
I believe every audience participant should walk away with not only a higher awareness of the effective traits of leadership and innovative cultures, but also a simple plan of action to put these ideas to work.
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–Louis Biggie, Director of Learning, Johns Hopkins University
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What’s different about the most remarkable leaders?
How can I have a bigger impact?
How Small Acts Can Equal Big Impact
Author and serial entrepreneur G. Shawn Hunter is the founder of Mindscaling. His latest book, Small Acts of Leadership: 12 Intentional Behaviors That Lead to Big Impact, argues that it’s the simple things, when done extraordinarily well, that make a great leader.
Shawn and I talked about his book and how it’s not always the most extraordinary, sweeping actions that make the biggest impact.
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“The greatest leaders cheer us on when we try something new.” -Shawn Hunter
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I love this philosophy because all of us can make just a few adjustments and improve our leadership today.
Do One Thing At A Time
G. Shawn HunterYou advocate that small, incremental choices can lead to a big impact. In your research for this book, what one small choice have you noticed in the most successful leaders?
I would say the one thing that successful people do is that they do one thing at a time. That might sound small and trifling, but, honestly, the way successful people get things done, or have meaningful conversations, is to do only that one thing. They turn off their phone when talking to people. They turn off email. They schedule time for writing and reading. They block off time for exercise and reflection. It sounds small, but it adds up.
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Successful people do one thing at a time.
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Is it possible to teach self-confidence? What are some ways to increase it?
The biggest contributor to building self-confidence is building competence. Nothing makes you feel confident like being prepared. There is also a type of self-questioning that can be quite helpful. Instead of repeating the mantra, “Yes, I can do this!” to build self-confidence, try asking yourself if you have the capabilities to achieve what you are envisioning. If you ask specific questions of yourself, you will be forced to answer to your weaknesses and reconcile them.
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“The biggest contributor to building self-confidence is building competence.” -Shawn Hunter
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Build Your Resilience
You talk about building resilience through challenge. Do challenges make the leader, or does the leader seek out challenges?
From what I understand through studying flow states, it’s a self-reinforcing paradigm, but only if you get the challenge part right. As your readers may know, flow states occur when the level of challenge presented meets (or slightly exceeds) your skill level. In that state we can become hyper-aware and hyper-focused. We also accelerate our learning. Once we feel that state, we often seek out those experiences which create flow states. There are people who can actually get addicted to inducing this type of state. They’re called Type T people, also known as adrenaline junkies.
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Pronoia: believing the world is conspiring for your success.
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Develop Persistent Curiosity
Persistence. I love the story of your daughter and how she ended up with a rare poster of Taylor Swift. What are some ways to develop persistent curiosity in everything we do?SmallActs-front (1)
Good question! The great physicist Richard Feynman once described how you can spot a real expert versus a phony. Look for three little words, “I don’t know.” The phony will have all the answers, while the experts will be willing to admit what they don’t know. Real experts are relentlessly curious, even assertively curious – that is, they will demand explanations for things that many others simply accept as rules.
Here’s an interesting fact about people who describe themselves as curious. These people are also assertive. Curious people are decision-makers. They are influencers. They often say they have direct influence over the outcome of decisions and change. If you think of the people in your company and community who consistently drive change, I bet you will be thinking of inquisitive people – people willing to ask the hard questions.
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“Creating confidence is the result of applied effort and work.” -Shawn Hunter
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Take a Break (even if you’re busy!)
You advocate the counterintuitive advice of taking breaks when we’re busy. Why is taking a break so important? How do you get a type-A, driven leader to follow this practice?
All-nighters don’t scale. Period. In some corners of business, we have created a work environment in which it’s cool to brag about how many hours we work, and how little sleep we get, and how many deliverables we accomplish. I worked in a company once that mandated a rapid response time to every incoming message. When you create an environment which requires people to constantly monitor correspondence over email and text, the next thing they do is constantly initiate messages.
Studies demonstrate what we already know intuitively. That is, our intellectual and productivity capacity diminishes rapidly when we are sleep deprived and when we are distracted. To answer your question, organizations and leaders should reward people who deliver meaningful, thoughtful contributions, not who puts out the highest volume of email noise.
12 Intentional Behaviors for Big Impact
1: Believe in yourself.
2: Build confidence.
3: Introduce challenge.
4: Express gratitude.
5: Fuel curiosity.
6: Grant autonomy.
7: Strive for authenticity.
8: Be fully present.
9: Inspire others.
10. Clarify roles.
11. Defy convention.
12. Take a break.
Defy Convention
Of the 12 critical competencies, is there one that more leaders struggle with than others?
Yes, of these 12 competencies I believe the hardest to accept is to encourage those around you to defy convention. I have an entire chapter on the importance of defying convention and deviating in a positive way. It’s the only way real innovation and progress can develop. But in order for this to happen, the leaders have to create an environment in which this is acceptable, even encouraged. I’m not talking about encouraging chaos. I’m talking about an environment in which people are encouraged to be creatively deviant.
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“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work.” -Stephen King
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How do these 12 competencies manifest themselves in teams?
I devote an entire section to clarifying roles because I think it’s one of the least understood dynamics of successful teams. Often we focus on hiring the strongest talent and granting them autonomy. The thinking behind this is that if we can just get the most talented people in the room, and then set them free, they will do remarkable things.
Not quite. It turns out that the most successful and productive teams also have very high role clarity – each member of the team understands the roles and responsibilities of others. This is not to say there is no role or job rotation, there is. But the specific function of each member has great clarity, which makes the entire unit achieve more, quickly.
About the Author
Shawn Hunter is a serial entrepreneur, best-selling author, former executive, and the founder and president of Mindscaling, a company dedicated to creating beautiful and intelligent online learning products. Hunter started his professional journey as an entrepreneur when he co-founded Targeted Learning Corporation with his father, Hal Hunter, PhD. Targeted Learning was acquired in February 2007 by Skillsoft, where Hunter then worked as executive producer & vice president for Leadership Solutions until July 2015. In these positions, Hunter spent more than a decade interviewing, collaborating with, and filming hundreds of leading business authors, executives, and business school faculty in an effort to assemble video learning solutions. The author of Out*Think, his latest book shows how a new style of leadership is emerging from those who start small and adopt incremental change into their everyday lives for big impact.
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“Innovation potential is everywhere throughout organizations. Shawn has given us the leadership mindset and the tools to bring it to life. Out Think shows you how to institutionalize the habits of innovation.”
–Jeff Joerres, Chairman and CEO ManpowerGroup
Shawn Hunter is an entrepreneur, best-selling author, speaker, and currently Founder and President of Mindscaling, a company dedicated to creating beautiful, and intelligent online learning products.
Until July, 2015 Shawn was Executive Producer & Vice President for Leadership Solutions at Skillsoft. For over a decade Hunter has interviewed, collaborated with, and filmed, hundreds of leading business authors, executives, and business school faculty in an effort to assemble video learning solutions. He started this journey as an entrepreneur, and later expanded that business for Skillsoft. Hunter originally co-founded Targeted Learning Corporation with his father Hal Hunter, Ph.D., which was acquired by Skillsoft in February 2007.
Shawn’s new book Small Acts of Leadership: 12 Intentional Behaviors that Lead to Big Impact (Bibliomotion) will be published October 4, 2016.
In business today, there is no offline and there is no downtime. Professionals are both exhausted and depleted. Being constantly tethered to our work through technology makes us overwhelmed and shortsighted, and deprives us of time for meaningful reflection or thoughtful connection to our professional communities, and often even to our own families.
For us to thrive—not simply survive—in this accelerating economy, we need to adopt small, intentional behaviors and practice them each day. From simply taking care of our rest and exercise to building our self-confidence and embracing challenges, author Shawn Hunter’s latest book Small Acts of Leadership will guide you through a series of incremental steps you can take to build a stronger version of yourself and make a broader impact in the world.
Weaving in personal life stories and meaningful interviews with business leaders around the world, Hunter presents the reader with twelve critical competencies that are consistently present in the daily behaviors of today’s most successful leaders.
“Shawn’s new book pops with brave energy and honesty. Crisp, taut writing combined with clear actionable ideas, Small Acts of Leadership is one of the best business reads of the year.”
–Marshall Goldsmith, Thinkers 50 #1 Leadership Thinker in the World
“Shawn pulls his audience into an exciting and compelling story about this new era of leadership. His model of "Actionable Leadership" weaves together a variety of new and emerging perspectives, studies and personal observations from his years interviewing business leaders, thought leaders and academicians. Shawn brings truly infectious passion, energy and humor to this topic! Don't miss an opportunity to learn from Shawn's work!”
–Kathy Doiron, Global Talent Lab, Starbucks
“Wow! A very dynamic and thought-provoking presentation – Shawn is definitely a very talented and engaging speaker.”
–Workforce Management
“This is Shawn Hunter at his very best. All grit and courage…telling stories that hit home, ring true, and point the way to a better you. This is a must-have toolbox for every manager.”
–John Ambrose, General Manager, SumTotal (a Skillsoft Company)
“It was an honor for us to have Shawn keynote our annual conference. He succeeds in being at once insightful, relevant, witty, and interesting. Not many people are so thoughtful yet also practical. A triumph!”
–Louis Biggie, Director of Learning, Johns Hopkins University
“Engrossing and compelling. Shawn shows how anyone can step up and quietly take the lead with small, intentional acts each day.”
–Susan Cain, co-founder of Quiet Revolution and New York Times bestselling author of QUIET
“Shawn was one of (if not the) best speakers we have ever had! Thank you so much.”
–ATD
“Shawn was great to work with as he listened intently to what we were looking for and provided possible keynote topics for us to consider. The timing of the release of Out Think was perfect as the tone we were striving to set was one of ingenuity and innovation. Shawn delivered an insightful and engaging presentation that got more positive feedback than any other workshop for the entire event! Shawn’s humility, vast knowledge of leadership traits and colorful stories, make for a profound learning experience.”
–Paul Reevs, Organizational Development, The Triumph Group
“It was fantastic to have Shawn work with our organization. His content and ideas are cutting-edge, engaging, and most importantly, applicable. He had the best reviews of all guest speakers we have had this year. Everyone remarked on how well prepared, passionate, and interactive the event was. I absolutely recommend a chance to work with him.”
–Jennifer O'Brien, President Canadian Community of Corporate Educators
“Your presentation today on leadership was one of the best I’ve heard in a long long time. You blended story, research, metrics, and real-world application seamlessly.”
–Great West Insurance
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Can small acts really make a difference? Hunter (Out Think), an entrepreneur and founder of elearning company
Mindscaling, explores how focusing on purposeful changes can help shape successful leaders and, potentially, their
teams. In a world of rushing to meetings and constant screen time, Hunter suggests a smallscale, mindful, and
deliberate approach toward positive change. Each chapter describes a behavior that, when practiced habitually, can help
one become a more effective leader. The steps begin with focusing inward (increasing selfefficacy and confidence),
then developing one's workplace and team members (expressing gratitude, fueling curiosity, and granting autonomy),
and finally looking outward to improve the quality of one's external relationships (being fully present and inspiring
others). Delivered throughout are robust examples illustrating these strategies told through stories and interviews in
easily digestible segments. The book's strength is its solid, practical advice presented in straightforward language.
VERDICT Recommended for those new to leadership and those interested in developing and adopting guiding
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In his thoughtful but unwieldy latest work, entrepreneur Hunter (OutThink) presents 12 critical competencies intended
to help readers become more successful leaders, asserting that the key is "small, incremental steps taken each day."
Drawing on interviews, personal experience, and research, the author offers lessons on such traits as grit, kindness, and
resilience from a diverse array of individuals, including athletes, academics, and authors. He adds business relevance
through references to and quotes from corporate leaders at companies like Merck, ScheringPlough, and Ingram Micro.
Throughout, the author introduces a wide variety of helpful concepts in short nuggets of helpful advice and insights,
many of which can be implemented in the small steps he describes. However, the sheer volume of ideas and concepts
in each chapter becomes overwhelming. While the sourcing of scholarly research is helpful, the work often feels like
one academic namedrop after another, and is too dense to easily digest or focus on. For readers who can absorb the
tips in small chunks, the ideas may be helpful. Agent: Lisa DiMona, Writers House. (Oct.)
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Out Think
How innovative leaders drive exceptional outcomes
G Shawn Hunter
Out Think is super smart and densely written. Best read in the morning after a cup of coffee. It is about the importance
of innovation to business success and it helped crystallise one of our company values: 'embrace change'. It was also a
wakeup call for me to ask more open questions and let people challenge my ideas.
Unthink
Rediscover your creative genius
Erik Wahl
Unthink brought home the importance of playfulness and spontaneity to having good ideas. Wahl encourages readers to
rediscover their artistic, longforgotten child within to unlock their creative genius. He urges readers to be provocative,
intuitive, convicted, accelerated, spontaneous, surrendered and original. In other words, like Picasso. Now I understand
why Lego is such a popular tool in our creative brainstorms! This book is like a breath of fresh air; it may not be
substantial but it will lead you to reconsider your own creative processes.
Viral Marketing:
The science of sharing
Dr Karen NelsonField
NelsonField has spent more than two years researching the making of a viral video hit, using academic methodology.
The book reveals the emotions most likely to lead to social shares and growth in market share. Having read Viral
Marketing, I now plan all our marketing activity around the emotional responses we are seeking. We want clients to
laugh, gasp or cry, as well as smile. I recently gave a presentation where the people voted whether they wanted to see a
video featuring 'poop or prank'. They were certainly surprised and it had high impact!
EDWINA DUNN COFOUNDER OF DUNNHUMBY AND DIRECTOR OF STARCOUNT
Monster Loyalty
How Lady Gaga turns followers into fanatics
Jackie Huba
This book explores a new era in customer loyalty fan passion. The queen of pop has a social media following that is
not just about music but a way of life. Her little monsters all 55 million of them are a tribe, led by the 1% of
superfans who consume, connect and amplify her voice and brand. Lady Gaga makes them feel like rock stars by
staying authentic and treating them well. One for businesses that want to learn how to look after their customers in a
social world.
The Athena Doctrine:
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How women (and the men who think like them) will rule the future
John Gerzema and Michael D'Antonio
This book appealed to my curiosity and respect for data: it explores feminine values using 64,000 surveys in 13
countries. Rather amazingly, twothirds of people think that the world would be a better place if men thought more like
women building consensus, being flexible and admitting failure. The survey found that 'in a world with less money,
close personal relationships have become more important'. Social media has become a way of cutting out the middle
men and making messages honest, direct and fast.
Instructions for a Heatwave
Maggie O'Farrell
This novel started so well. It's about an Irish family during the heatwave of 1976, when I was sitting my A levels. The
father/husband disappears and the family, who are profiled beautifully, are thrown apart only to come back together to
discover why and where. It should have been gripping and so nearly was, but the different threads of the story never
quite resolved. Worth a read nevertheless.
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Edmund Burke
Philosopher, politician, prophet
Jesse Norman
The writings of the 18thcentury parliamentarian and philosopher Edmund Burke have taken on a startling new
relevance since the crash. Burke understood both the limits of rationalism and the need for individuals to be rooted in a
network of strong social institutions. His lifelong opposition to arbitrary power makes him a hero to radicals and
conservatives alike. Norman's masterly study of Burke's life and thought deserves to be read by anyone with an interest
in the big questions of politics.
Making it Happen
Fred Goodwin, RBS, and the men who blew up the British economy Iain Martin
In many ways, the story of RBS under Fred Goodwin is the story of the British economy before 2008. Iain Martin's
account of the rise and fall of RBS is a fastpaced guide not only to what happened but also to what on earth
politicians, regulators and senior management were thinking as the bank imploded. One of my favourite anecdotes
from the book tells of a replica of Mel Gibson's sword from Braveheart that used to hang on the RBS boardroom wall
in the glory days.
Lean In
Women, work and the will to lead
Sheryl Sandberg
I don't agree with everything in Sandberg's account of what women must do to get to the top of business. Perhaps a
focus on proactively tackling the maledominated culture might be more powerful than changing the behaviour of
women. But this is a fascinating and provocative discussion of the unique challenges faced by women in the corporate
world from Facebook's chief operating officer. Every male CEO should have a copy on his desk.
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