“Tango with a Bear” with Paul Crosby (GWTW724)

It’s been a few years since I’ve thought about teams, but today’s guest opened the floodgates while simultaneously dismantling biases and explaining past negative experiences. Paul Crosby is one of the founders and the CEO of The Uncommon League, a training company that teaches people in unexpected ways to think, work, and learn differently. He’s also an author who has written several books on topics ranging from business analysis to positive conflict. In this conversation, Paul shares his curiosity about teams and how they work through friction, conflict, and collaboration. He also talks about The Uncommon League, how the name came about, and why they don’t settle for boring. We also touch on the importance of failure in growing in your life and work, how doubt is a natural component of the human experience, and the process he uses to write his books.

Show Links

• The Uncommon League
• Edison by Edmund Morris
• Fail Fast – Fail Safe: Harness the power of failure to fearlessly innovate and achieve amazing results by Paul Crosby and Bob Prentiss
• Kolb’s Learning Styles And Experiential Learning Cycle
• The Badass Business Analyst. Little Slices of Big Truths by Bob Prentiss
• Positive Conflict: Transform Discord into Collaboration and Innovation by Paul Crosby
• Books by Le Cordon Bleu on Amazon
• Hidden Brain
• The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans by Bill Hammack
• Midjourney prompt for episode art: tango with a bear –ar 16:9