Quoted without comment (but with a lot of admiration!) For all his star power, though, Damon is more than just the pretty face of Water.org. He has turned himself into a development expert. This would seem like an obvious and necessary first step for someone embracing the global water crisis as a personal mission. But,… Read More It Takes A Learner To Learn – Consider Matt Damon
From Wikipedia: Lifelong learning is the continuous building of skills and knowledge throughout the life of an individual. It occurs through experiences encountered in the course of a lifetime. These experiences could be formal (training, counseling, tutoring, mentorship, apprenticeship, higher education, etc.) or informal (experiences, situations, etc.)[1] Lifelong learning, also known as LLL, is the… Read More Lifelong Learning – Thinking About Why College, and Lifelong, Ongoing Learning, Really Matter
Reading remains an unsurpassed vehicle for the transmission of interesting new ideas and perspectives. Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation As business leaders, we’re voracious seekers of business improvement ideas in the form of conferences, books, blogs, and training. We want our performance to be better, and we know… Read More We’ve Joined the “3,000 Club” – This is Our 3,000th Blog Post
“The only job security is found in your own ability to keep learning!” Peter Drucker “Through learning, we re-create ourselves.” Peter Senge ———– We all know the challenge – to keep learning. But, in most cases, learning is not learning something new, but instead, remembering what we knew, but forgot — or remembering what we… Read More Lifelong Learning – One Life-Long String of Refresher Courses
Yesterday you graduated and you were set for life – only needing to “keep up” a bit with ongoing developments in your chosen field. Today when you graduate you’re set for, say, fifteen minutes. If you took a technical course in the first year of your studies, half of what you learned may be obsolete… Read More Keep Learning – It’s Your Only Job Security (Macrowikinomics reinforces this ever-more-true truth)
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