Curiosity comes before Knowledge. (Episode 264)
1100 Icelandic HR leaders meeting for an HR conference is the equivalent of a HR conference with 25,000 (!) people in Sweden – or a whopping 825,000 (!) attendees for an HR conference in the USA.
It’s mind-blowing that such a small country as Iceland can create such a big local HR conference.
And to have it start with the moderator singing a rock ballad with a HR theme is just epic.
I love EVERYTHING about Iceland.
In my speech I mentioned how interesting I found it that the Icelandic word for ”curious” is ”forvitinn” – made up of the word for ”before” and the word for ”knowing”.
In other words: in Icelandic, the word for curious reminds us that before someone can learn something, their curiosity has to be awoken!
Curiosity comes before knowledge.
My message to the HR community was that their most important role is to awaken the curiosity in their people so that they want to learn more.
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