Book description
Keep learning, or risk becoming irrelevant.
It's a truism in today's economy: the only constant is change. Technological automation is making jobs less routine and more cognitively challenging. Globalization means you're competing with workers around the world. Simultaneously, the internet and other communication technologies have radically increased the potential impact of individual knowledge.
The relentless dynamism of these forces shaping our lives has created a new imperative: we must strive to become dynamic learners. In every industry and sector, dynamic learners outperform their peers and realize higher impact and fulfillment by learning continuously and by leveraging that learning to build yet more knowledge.In Never Stop Learning, behavioral scientist and operations expert Bradley R. Staats describes the principles and practices that comprise dynamic learning and outlines a framework to help you become more effective as a lifelong learner. The steps include:
- Valuing failure
- Focusing on process, not outcome, and on questions, not answers
- Making time for reflection
- Learning to be true to yourself by playing to your strengths
- Pairing specialization with variety
- Treating others as learning partners
Replete with the most recent research about how we learn as well as engaging stories that show how real learning happens, Never Stop Learning will become the operating manual for leaders, managers, and anyone who wants to keep thriving in the new world of work.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- CHAPTER 1: Becoming a Dynamic Learner
- CHAPTER 2: Why Don’t We Learn from Failure?
- CHAPTER 3: Learning Requires Process Focus, Not Outcome Focus
- CHAPTER 4: Asking Questions
- CHAPTER 5: Learning Requires Recharging and Reflection, Not Constant Action
- CHAPTER 6: Being Yourself to Learn
- CHAPTER 7: Playing to Strengths, Not Fixating on Weaknesses
- CHAPTER 8: Specialization and Variety
- CHAPTER 9: Learning from Others
- CHAPTER 10: Dee-termination
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
Product information
- Title: Never Stop Learning
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2018
- Publisher(s): Harvard Business Review Press
- ISBN: 9781633692862
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