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Chapter ThreeBe a Learn-It-All

1. What Do Learners Look Like?
2. The S Curve: Skills, Scale, and Scope
3. Your Career-Development Plan
4. Your Career-Builder Assignments
5. The Four Career Knockout Punches
6. From Learner to Leader: Your Career Aspirations
7. What Great Looks Like
8. Best in Class: The Brain Balance
9. How Learning Agile Are You?
10. Where Are You Headed with What You've Learned?

The business landscape is evolving so dramatically that's it's impossible to imagine the future. Big data, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and a host of emerging technologies may be only the start of a revolution in how and where work is performed. In the face of such unpredictable, fast-paced change, you can't possibly know it all. But you had better learn it all! Learning is the only way to parlay what you know now into the new and different of tomorrow.

As much as people talk about being “lifelong learners,” few really make the effort. It's one of those little fibs we keep telling ourselves or saying at job interviews: No, it's not the money or the title; it's the learning experience that we want more than anything. Of course, it's just the opposite. You are almost certain to ask about a company's vacation or start-date policy before you inquire about its last employee-training session. Rarely ...