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title: Learn to Grow Shorts – The Domino Effect of Mindful Leadership
description: The Learn to Grow Podcast is where we speak to leaders in the learning and development industry about the learning landscape.
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# [Learn to Grow Shorts – The Domino Effect of Mindful Leadership](https://blog.sureskills.com/podcast-s1-e2-the-domino-effect-of-mindful-leadership)

 Written by [Simon Behan](https://blog.sureskills.com/author/simon-behan) | Oct 7, 2020 10:00:00 AM

**Summary:  
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After each podcast we like to do a short, follow-up musing prompted by the conversation. When I talked with Rashim Mogha, I asked her about mindful leadership and she was adamant that a productive culture begins with mindful leadership.

It reminded me of the 2020 Workplace Learning Report that emphasizes the massive role that managers play in driving learning engagement and building a culture of learning.

Changing the culture can seem like a massive task. One that requires a huge budget and months if not years of planning.

But there is so much about establishing a learning culture that is absolutely free!

- There is no budget required to share something you’ve learned with your team members.
- There is no budget required to highlight a TED talk that resonated with you.
- There is no budget required or to reach out to someone you work with, superior, peer, or subordinate, and ask them what they’re learning.

I’ve always loved [dominoes as a metaphor for the big impact of small gestures](https://blog.sureskills.com/push-the-first-domino).

A 2-inch domino can knock over another domino 1.5 times its size.

Line up more dominoes, each 1.5 times larger than the last, and

- the 12th domino would be 15 feet tall.
- The 17th would dwarf the statue of liberty.
- The 19th would overshadow the Empire State Building.
- The 50th would knock over a domino the size of the distance between the earth and the moon.

Small actions create big chain reactions.

Leaders can inspire their teams with small gestures like a demonstrated interest in what their team members are learning!

Leaders have this responsibility. But the thing is. We are all leaders. In a democratized learning culture, everyone is a catalyst. Everyone has the chance to inspire people around them.

All it takes is to push the first domino. 

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