Never Stop Learning: Stay Relevant, Reinvent Yourself, and Thrive Book

Keep learning, or risk becoming irrelevant. A truism in today's economy: the only constant is change. Technological automation is making jobs less routine & cognitively challenging. Globalization means you compete w/workers around the world. Simultaneously, the internet & other communication technology have increased the potential impact of individual knowledge.These forces shaping our lives has created a new imperative: we must strive to become dynamic learners. In every industry & sector, dynamic learners outperform their peers & realize higher impact & fulfillment by learning continuously & 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. Publisher ‎Harvard Business Review Press June 5, 2018 English Hardcover 240pgs