Experience Trumps Theory

I found this article by Scott Belsky, the author of Making Ideas Happen, very helpful. I felt it reinforced my ideas of experience based learning as opposed to theory based learning. I found the section on leadership development to be very interesting:

"[...] The model suggests that, when it comes to training leaders, only 10% happens in a classroom through formal instruction, 20% is all about feedback exchange and coaching, and a whopping 70% is experiential. [...]"

Obviously, that element of theory based learning will scale depending on the particular field of work in question.

Until next time!