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ROOSEVELT ON LISTENTING AND LEARNING. “Leaders must always continue to learn.”. Listening and Learning I. To maintain usefulness as a teacher, a leader must always continue to learn. Become a voracious reader. Seek information, knowledge, and experience from every available medium.
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ROOSEVELT ON LISTENTING AND LEARNING “Leaders must always continue to learn.”
Listening and Learning I • To maintain usefulness as a teacher, a leader must always continue to learn. • Become a voracious reader. Seek information, knowledge, and experience from every available medium.
Listening and Learning II • Examine the content of your learning experience --- reading, writing, entertainment, time with companions --- just as you monitor your nutrition. • Leaders should strive for balanced mental and spiritual nourishment, including “vitamins for the mind.” • Effective executive make themselves --- and their enterprises --- perpetual-motion learning machines.
Listening and Learning III • Develop your powers of observation and listening so that more and more of your daily experience yields knowledge, perspective, inspiration, and insight. • Utilize lessons derived from earlier time in your life as ready reserves that can be cross-fertilized and deployed in future situations.
Listening and Learning IV • Leaders should strive to view mistakes as learning opportunities. • Become a skillful, active listener. • Forethought is the raw material of decision making. • Where a leader’s learning and life experiences are intermingled, continuously growing, the ongoing process of reflection can endow a leader with creative, rapid decision making.