Upgrade Yourself As a Learner: Reason #2 (of 5) Thrive (Survive?) in an Information-Saturated World

According to IBM, it won’t be long before human knowledge via AI and the Internet of Things will double every 12 hours! Let’s go back in time at how this compares to earlier information doubling rates. In 1982, a genius inventor, Buckminster Fuller documented and then anticipated this information speed-up. Here’s what he saw: 1800-1900 […]

Upgrade Yourself As a Learner: Reason #1 (of 5) Ongoing Work and Career Success

It’s clear by now that the skills and knowledge you bring to work today will be insufficient or even obsolete tomorrow. This is true for professional and specialist skills as well as manual or service skills, which need continual upgrading and adaptation. It is also true for broader capabilities – like decision-making, communicating, thinking creatively […]

5 Big Reasons for Upgrading HOW You Learn

There is a learning crisis both at work and in the world. It affects our ability to thrive in fast-changing times – at work, in careers, at home — lifelong. It’s a crisis because our ability to continually evolve is essential for quality decisions and creating the future of society, organizations, and our and our […]

SMART Learning 4.0 — a Learning Upgrade for Our Times

Our brains need a learning upgrade today. It’s an upgrade that must draw on practical, advanced, and science-based approaches we can use when we are learning alone, learning with others, and when we support others’ learning. It also has to be powerful enough for drawing lessons from past experience, learning in the present moment, and […]

It’s Time to Upgrade Your Brain’s Learning Software

Everything is changing around us. It was challenging enough to deal with the “then normal” pace of change before COVID19. But it’s clear, even bigger changes in work and relationships are on the horizon. This creates a massive learning challenge (opportunity!). We all need upgraded and new skills and attitudes about work, family, careers, social […]

Just say “NO!”

NUGGET: Say “NO” to changes that will not add value We often hear a scary statistic about change: 40, 50, 60, 70% of all changes in organizations are viewed as failures. They don’t achieve desired goals, they fall apart or are abandoned before they are complete, they overrun costs by orders of magnitude, etc. These […]

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