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He struggled to read well into his twenties. Then, @DougStandley went on to turn companies around, take a company public, and become a partner at Deloitte.
There’s a lot of life between those sentences.
One moment from our conversation captures that. An industrial psychologist helped Doug understand that he was capable. The advice that followed was simple: start reading.
It’s easy to pull “just start” out of that story. But someone first gave him a reason to question what he’d believed about himself. Then Doug had to do the work.
That combination of practical wisdom and human nuance came up throughout this conversation.
We talked about growing up, fixing struggling companies, being the outsider, and staying curious enough to keep learning after a career that could already fill a few episodes.
When I reflect on this one, I feel gratitude more than anything else that Doug as accomplished as he is took the time to give me a real raw inside look at his life and what moves him.
That's the magic AI can't take from us.
Full podcast below!
There’s a lot of life between those sentences.
One moment from our conversation captures that. An industrial psychologist helped Doug understand that he was capable. The advice that followed was simple: start reading.
It’s easy to pull “just start” out of that story. But someone first gave him a reason to question what he’d believed about himself. Then Doug had to do the work.
That combination of practical wisdom and human nuance came up throughout this conversation.
We talked about growing up, fixing struggling companies, being the outsider, and staying curious enough to keep learning after a career that could already fill a few episodes.
When I reflect on this one, I feel gratitude more than anything else that Doug as accomplished as he is took the time to give me a real raw inside look at his life and what moves him.
That's the magic AI can't take from us.
Full podcast below!
