656 - Why Every CEO Should Document Their Life Lessons
About this episode
Jens Heitland discusses the importance of documenting life lessons for future generations, inspired by personal experiences with his father.
Why Every CEO Should Document Their Life Lessons My father died in 2021. We had lived abroad for years before that, and the time we spent together was always centered on family. We never got into the conversations that would have helped me later, how to drive a business, how to work through a hard problem with a team. Those are the conversations you only have if you spend a certain kind of time together, and we hadn't had that kind of time in years. When he died, I felt the absence most clearly in a specific way. I no longer had someone I could go to and say, I have this problem with a team member, or I am not sure how to think about this decision. He was simply not there to respond anymore, and that gap became one of the clearest realizations I had during that period. My daughter and I went looking through his things and found something we had almost forgotten about. He had recorded small radio clips years earlier, and we found the old CDs. We sat down and listened to them together. What struck both of us was how much wisdom was in those short recordings, wisdom that had gone untouched for years because nobody had looked for it. That experience is part of what led me to build…
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