When an injury ended Aidan McCullen’s professional rugby career, he started to read. His wife handed him books on mindset. The reading turned into a career in digital transformation, a mentorship with Dee Hock (the founder of Visa), the book Undisruptable, and more than a decade of conversations with the thinkers on his podcast, The Innovation Show. “Learning,” he says, “absolutely changed my life.”
In this episode of Collective Intelligence, Aidan talks with Gavin Weeks about what all that borrowed wisdom has taught him about reinvention, in organisations and in our own lives.
He explains why learning is the only competitive advantage left when change comes this fast, and why reinvention means letting go as much as taking on the new.
He describes how Andy Grove’s “positive Cassandras” at the edges of a company often see the future first.
He also shows how a single team leader can build a learning culture through small rituals: a monthly article, a six-monthly round of shared lessons, and a Crazy Penguin Award for whoever takes the first calculated leap.
Aidan doesn’t take credit for any of it. “I just see myself as this kind of mirror of all these brilliant people,” he says. “It’s not my opinion. It’s me echoing and translating.”
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