673: Daniel Coyle - Opening Yellow Doors, Mastering Your Craft, World-Class Storytelling Techniques, Great Questions to Ask, Building Your Community, The Power of Curiosity, and How to Flourish in Life

Welcome to the Learning Leader Show. I am your host, Ryan Hawk. Thank you so much for being here. Go to learningleader.com for show notes of this and all podcast episodes. Go to learningleader.com. Now on to tonight's featured leader, one of my favorites, Dan Coyle, New York Times best selling author who spent the last two decades studying what makes great teams great. He wrote The Talent Code, The Culture Code, and now Flourish. These are books that have shaped how millions of people think about skill development, team culture, and meaningful connection. He works with the Cleveland Guardians as a special adviser on culture and performance. We got together in Cleveland to record this one in person. So glad I got to spend half a day with Dan. A few things we discussed, the craft of writing and storytelling, including the advice Dan gives to his 24 year old daughter who wants to be a writer. Love it. And then the Chilean miners story. And for me, talk a little bit about this with Mike Deegan. 33 men trapped underground for fifty two days who should not have survived but did, and what that reveals about human resilience and group flourishing. And then I love this concept called yellow doors. They are about spotting opportunities to create meaningful connections and exploring new paths, including a new story that Dan tells about rock climbing. I think you'll find it useful. Ladies and gentlemen, please enjoy my conversation with Dan Coyle. This episode is brought to you by my friends at Insight Global. Insight Global is a staffing and professional services company dedicated to providing amazing people to their clients and taking great care of them. If you need to hire one person, hire a team of people, or transform your business through talent or technical services, Insight Global can get you the people you need and help you develop them to reach their full potential. Developing your people can be tough, but having productive employees can be magic. Visit Insight Global dot com slash learning leader. That's insightglobal.com/learningleader to learn more. Who are you reading lately that, like, you're loving? You know, this guy and it's more on the writing area, but George Saunders bumping his stuff at all? I've heard that. Yeah. What's what's what's something he's written that you really like? It's called A Swim in the Pond in the Rain. He teaches a class on writing, but it's really kind of about life. What's it? What's that book? A Swim? It's a terrible title. A Swim in a pond in the rain. And that's a nonfiction? Nonfiction. It's based on a class he teaches on Russian short stories, so it's super abstract. Oh, my god. I'm trying to think of something that's more in your in your world, or our world around. Are you so you're studying writing? Yeah. Yeah. It's it's Is that, like, your favorite thing? I'm always looking to deepen that skill set. …