Continuous Learning
Graduation ceremonies are called commencements for a reason most people miss. The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher, which only helps if you show up as the student. These posts are about staying deliberately curious well past the point anyone is grading you.
20 articles
2025
Bryan Yager finished an Executive MBA on Saturdays and weeknights. On why that was the beginning, not the end.
6 min readAn Easter egg hunt for adults, and a serious point. Bryan Yager on staying young at heart as a practice.
5 min readA Fortune 500 sent its senior leaders to solve problems they knew nothing about. Bryan Yager on why stretch assignments work.
6 min read2023
604,800 seconds a week, distributed perfectly fairly. Bryan Yager on the only variable that is actually yours.
6 min readBryan Yager's son took over a department. This is the advice he would give him, paid forward from the early nineties.
7 min readWasted, spent, invested, or enjoyed. Bryan Yager on the four things you can do with an hour, and which you pick.
6 min read2022
Same route, same chair, same rituals. Bryan Yager on the comfort zone prison we build ourselves, and getting out of it.
7 min readA farewell party for someone leaving a job she loved. Bryan Yager on what a good exit actually feels like.
5 min readBryan Yager asks what your team learned to do better during the hardest two years, and why difficulty is where learning lives.
4 min readOnly 8% of resolutions survive the year. Bryan Yager on carrying out a decision long after the excitement wears off.
5 min read2021
2019
More skills, more playing time. Bryan Yager on why that holds in an organization exactly as it does on a field.
2 min readThe world is a university and everyone is a teacher. Bryan Yager on how to actually show up as the student.
3 min readThey are called commencements, not completions. Bryan Yager on the assumption that your education is finished.
2 min read2018
Habits compound exactly like interest, in both directions. Bryan Yager on ten pages a day, and what it becomes.
3 min readLincoln would spend the first hours sharpening the ax. Bryan Yager on why most of us never do, and work harder for it.
2 min readHR told Bryan Yager he would not advance without a degree. On what he learned after he had one.
3 min readBryan has spent more than 45 years developing leaders, in Boise and across the country. If this is the thinking you want in the room, he works with organizations on Executive Coaching, and the same thinking runs through his book, How to Transition Into Leadership.