Elite Lessons — Stretching and Curiosity

Yesterday I wrote about “Consistency over Innovation”, learning from Eddy Merckx and the owners of a wonderful spinning studio in Cayman that:

“In business and leadership, we laud innovation so much that sometimes we forget the value of consistency. In the right circumstances, it can truly be better to choose a focus on consistency rather than seeking to innovate.”

In other circumstances, it is also really valuable to always be looking to stretch and grow as a human, a leader, and in your business offerings. For this musing, today I acknowledge the awesome Arno de Jong of AlpAdventures, who’s very being is about stretching and curiosity. I just took my three boys to spend three days and two nights with him and reflecting here on key leadership lessons from this amazing guy!

I first met Arno de Jong in January 2017 at that year’s edition of “Snowhow”, the creation of my dear friend, the amazing Carrie Bedingfield, and billed as “the 2-day adventure for entrepreneurs to move and breathe”. Now, the first rule of SnowHow is you don’t talk about snowhow, so we don’t talk about the experience or what the adventure entails, but it was led by Arno as our guide and I always knew I’d come back to what he and that community call “Dream Valley”.