May 2019
Beginner
256 pages
4h 48m
English
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CONCLUSION
‘Everyone thinks of changing the world,but no one thinks of changing himself.’
Leo Tolstoy
You’ve reached the end of this book, but we would hate you to think of it as an end. Rather, it is an invitation to embrace the future by developing the skills that will always matter.
The need for the skills we have gathered and shared in this book is unending. This is their ultimate power. Of course, these are not the only 12 Forever Skills. We identified many skills that had to be clustered, intimated or even omitted, or else you would be reading forever!
We hope you will also identify your own Forever Skills. That you will share these 12, plus your own, with your communities, companies, teams, families and kids (and even us — we’d love to hear from you). That the knowledge accumulated through lifetimes of experience will continue to help us all navigate the future.
We ask you to talk about the idea of Forever Skills with those around you. That you pass on this book and the skills you have gleaned to others. Debate what is evergreen and eternally powerful. Decide the things worth keeping in your company, team or family. And the next time someone hyperventilates about the changes hurtling towards us, calmly provide a little perspective so that they might see all Three Spheres of Change, not just one.
There is so much that is changing, so much that needs changing and much that is unchanging.
- What’s changing? A great amount. In researching this book, what also became abundantly ...
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