2020’s health and leadership crises accelerated the inevitable and taught some valuable lessons that have intensified with the coming of ChatGPT and other smart technologies. Whatever your job is today, it will change. It may even go away. You can count on your work, career, and life taking different shapes than you’ve planned.. As Thomas …
Out of Disruption, Personal Transformation5 Steps for Breaking Through Read More »
I’d like to introduce a valuable, practical, and example-filled book about how to hack into your mind so that you better shape and influence your destiny. It’s Sir John Hargrave’s Mind Hacking: How to Change Your Mind for Good in 21 Days. Learning is always a mind-hack: something new happens to rewire and add connections …
Take Over Your Own Mind – A Book Review by Pat McLagan Read More »
What do YOU, the user, do about fake news? About manipulated and made up information, even slightly biased information, wherever it comes from?! This is a critical question to answer today. Our democracy is under attack and virus fears are weakening our defenses. Meanwhile,renegade propaganda is on the loose and exponentially spreading in social media …
I’m excited to share some insights from Samuel Arbesman’s, The Half Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date. It’s important for all of us to know that the information fueling our views and learning is true — and that we can rely on that knowledge when we need it in the …
It’s not just about thriving in the changing world of work. It’s also about being and becoming the best possible version of YOU. Like everyone, human nature and changing life conditions, challenges and opportunities continually call you to evolve through various stages of your life. The direction of this evolution can (and you probably agree, …
Why Upgrade Your Learning (#5) To Evolve Yourself – Be the Most You Can Be in Life Read More »
One of the defining features of our species is our ability to codify and pass information on to the next generations. We are all teachers as well as learners. The social aspect of learning is part of our genetic makeup. Researchers recently noticed that a two week old baby recognizes body language indicating that an …
Why Upgrade Your Learning (#4)? To Help Others Learn Read More »
Beware. Under your radar, technology is changing work and life much faster than you think. Machines and software are becoming exponentially more intelligent and influential… even manipulative. As technology gets smarter, it does more than make information more accessible, or manufacture tangible things, or do what used to be manual, dangerous, or analytical tasks faster …
Why Upgrade Your Learning (#3)? To Co-Evolve with Technology Read More »
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 …
Why Upgrade Learning (#2)? To Thrive -Survive- in an Information-Saturated World Read More »
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 …
Why Upgrade Learning (#1)? For Ongoing Work and Career Success Read More »
There is a learning crisis both at work and in the world. It affects our ability to thrive in fastchanging times – at work, in careers, at home — lifelong. It’s a crisis because our ability to continually evolve ourselves is essential for quality decisions and creating the future of society, organizations, and our and …
