# TestBash Leadership 2022 - What Weightlifting Taught me About Leadership with Jim Holmes

**URL:** <https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/testbash-leadership-2022-what-weightlifting-taught-me-about-leadership-with-jim-holmes/57122>\
**Category:** 🪐 TestBash\
**Tags:** testbash-leadership\
**Created:** [10 March 2022 18:40 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/testbash-leadership-2022-what-weightlifting-taught-me-about-leadership-with-jim-holmes/57122 "2022-03-10T18:40:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![dianadromey](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/dianadromey/32/7839_2.png) [@dianadromey](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/dianadromey)\
**Post date:** [10 March 2022 18:40 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/testbash-leadership-2022-what-weightlifting-taught-me-about-leadership-with-jim-holmes/57122/1 "2022-03-10T18:40:08Z")

</div>

In this talk, Jim shares how he finds fascinating, yet useful lessons while working at two dramatically different things.

We’ll use this Club thread to share resources mentioned during the session and answer any questions we don’t get to during the live session.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![dianadromey](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/dianadromey/32/7839_2.png) [@dianadromey](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/dianadromey)\
**Post date:** [10 March 2022 18:40 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/testbash-leadership-2022-what-weightlifting-taught-me-about-leadership-with-jim-holmes/57122/2 "2022-03-10T18:40:08Z")

</div>

# Resources Added in Advance

Jim Holmes book: The Leadership Journey - [The Leadership Journey by Jim Holmes [Leanpub PDF/iPad/Kindle]](https://leanpub.com/theleadershipjourney)  
And it’s free! 😉

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![emhurley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/90ced4/32.png) [@emhurley](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/emhurley)\
**Post date:** [10 March 2022 19:31 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/testbash-leadership-2022-what-weightlifting-taught-me-about-leadership-with-jim-holmes/57122/3 "2022-03-10T19:31:50Z")

</div>

# Resources Shared

Elephant Carpaccio: [https://alistair.cockburn.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Elephant-Carpaccio-exercise-instructions.pdf](https://alistair.cockburn.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Elephant-Carpaccio-exercise-instructions.pdf)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![jimholmescc](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/jimholmescc/32/10056_2.png) [@jimholmescc](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/jimholmescc)\
**Post date:** [11 March 2022 14:45 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/testbash-leadership-2022-what-weightlifting-taught-me-about-leadership-with-jim-holmes/57122/4 "2022-03-11T14:45:05Z")

</div>

In case folks missed it, I wrote a small book on leadership journey. It’s available for **FREE** [here on LeanPub](https://leanpub.com/theleadershipjourney).

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![melissafisher](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/melissafisher/32/8020_2.png) [@melissafisher](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/melissafisher)\
**Post date:** [3 October 2022 13:51 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/testbash-leadership-2022-what-weightlifting-taught-me-about-leadership-with-jim-holmes/57122/5 "2022-10-03T13:51:39Z")

</div>

Hi Jim! Thank you for your great talk on “what weightlifting taught me about leadership”. I’m going to be moving into a new leadership project / completely greenfield, so the thoughts such as make complex thing simple and how do you win when things fail were useful takeaways for me. I enjoyed the way you told the stories and kept your slides simple.

I’ll get a copy of your book! Do you have a website, blog or other work that I can take a look at? Thank you!

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![jimholmescc](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/jimholmescc/32/10056_2.png) [@jimholmescc](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/jimholmescc)\
**Post date:** [3 October 2022 14:05 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/testbash-leadership-2022-what-weightlifting-taught-me-about-leadership-with-jim-holmes/57122/6 "2022-10-03T14:05:47Z")

</div>

Thank you for the kind words, @melissafisher !

I have a blog at [FrazzledDad.com](http://FrazzledDad.com), but I’ve not posted much there in some time–however, some of the older posts may be interesting for you. I sporadically post on LinkedIn ([https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-holmes/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-holmes/)).

Good luck to you on moving into your new role! We need more good, thoughtful, caring leaders!