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

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

by Bradley R. Staats
Never Stop Learning: Stay Relevant, Reinvent Yourself, and Thrive

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

by Bradley R. Staats

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Overview

We now live in a learning economy, says Brad Staats, and while learning has always been important, the returns on lifetime learning are greater than ever. Our primary focus must be on our ability to learn. We must strive to develop new skills to create more value--or be left behind. As Jeff Immelt, Chairman and former CEO of GE, has noted, "You never hire somebody, no matter what the job you're hiring for, for what they know. You're hiring them for how fast you think they can learn."

In Never Stop Learning, Staats outlines the framework that will 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 from behavioral science about how we learn as well as engaging stories that show how real learning happens, Never Stop Learning will become the operating manual for your brain in this new environment.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781633692862
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Publication date: 05/15/2018
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 240
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Bradley R. Staats is an associate professor of operations at the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. His work has been featured in many publications, including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, the New Yorker, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, as well as on NPR.

Author Website: public.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/faculty/staatsb/

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Becoming a Dynamic Learner 1

Chapter 2 Why Don't We Learn from Failure? 15

Chapter 3 Learning Requires Process Focus, Not Outcome Focus 37

Chapter 4 Asking Questions 57

Chapter 5 Learning Requires Recharging and Reflection, Not Constant Action 77

Chapter 6 Being Yourself to Learn 99

Chapter 7 Playing to Strengths, Not Fixating on Weaknesses 117

Chapter 8 Specialization and Variety 135

Chapter 9 Learning from Others 153

Chapter 10 Dee-termination 169

Notes 173

Index 197

Acknowledgments 211

About the Author 219

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