Experience is the best teacher. Fifty Lessons, a strategic partner of Truman Company, provides access to the wisdom and insights of some of the world’s most accomplished business leaders. Using the power of storytelling, Fifty Lessons captures and distills the business experience of senior executives from leading companies around the world into short, memorable, video-based lessons that are easily understood and applied.
Available in a variety of formats including online video, mobile video, audio, and print, Fifty Lessons’ rich and compelling content can be used to support business strategy development, corporate learning solutions, marketing and customer relationship programs, sales acceleration, and internal and external events.
The Fifty Lessons library currently includes more than 500 stories on issues such as innovation, entrepreneurship, leadership, strategy, and business ethics from over 200 business leaders representing companies such as Accenture, Black Entertainment Television, Boston Scientific, Diageo, Duke Energy, Gucci, Hilton Group, HSBC, KPMG, Microsoft, Tesco, Virgin, and WPP.
Fifty Lessons content is publicly available through a range of current partnerships and programs, including:
- Conde Naste Portfolio magazine (see Fifty Lessons video channel)
- Harvard Business Online (see Video by Fifty Lessons)
- Harvard Manage Mentor (elearning resource, includes Fifty Lessons video)
- Lessons Learned book series (published by Harvard Business School Press)
- Cwerty.com (Fifty Lessons consumer site)
Illustrative corporate uses include:
- Supporting professional development for emerging leaders through access to the Fifty Lessons library
- Embedding rich media into online learning and information programs
- Enriching customer seminars and events with relevant executive video lessons
- Providing lessons on sales leadership to support ongoing sales training programs
- Producing custom video stories with top customers and executives for internal and external use
- Creating custom “Lessons Learned” books for internal and external use