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

Keep learning, or risk becoming irrelevant.

It's a truism in today's economy: the only constant is change. Technological automation is making jobs less routine and more cognitively challenging. Globalization means you're competing with workers around the world. Simultaneously, the internet and other communication technologies have radically increased the potential impact of individual knowledge.

The relentless dynamism of these forces shaping our lives has created a new imperative: we must strive to become dynamic learners. In every industry and sector, dynamic learners outperform their peers and realize higher impact and fulfillment by learning continuously and 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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781633692855
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Publication date: 06/05/2018
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 6.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Bradley R. Staats is an associate professor of operations at the Universityof 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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