Learn for Your Life: A blueprint for continuous learning - Softcover

Meed, John; Rossetti, Anna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0273649175 ISBN 13: 9780273649175

Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall, 2000

Synopsis

 This book is about continuous leaning.  In today's world, we are all managers - of our own productivity and probably that of others.  Success at work depends not so much on what we already know but on how much, how quickly and how effectively we can learn.  Learning can and should be something to be relished - a real source of joy, excitement and satisfaction.Learn for your Life gathers together the messages that are central to learning and empowerment for individuals, organizations and society in the 21st century.  Issues and ideas tackled in Learn for you Life include:

• Are you aware how you learn? Do you seize opportunities, whenever and wherever they arise?
• How can you ensure that you have the right learning tools for the right job?
• What are the 3 Es - economy, empowerment and enjoyment - and how do they offer a challenge to the traditional 3 Rs?
• How can you ensure that you are both selective and critical about the knowledge you acquire?
• Creativity is constantly called upon in the workplace. What are the new ideas about the links between creativity and learning?

  

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Review

"Everyone learns all the time. This book will help us all to do it a great deal better. It is the only book on the subject that is both wise and practical. It has set the standard and manages to communicate effortlessly and illuminatingly the key skill of our age - the ability to learn, improve and adapt. Put simply, everyone should read it and not just those in the education and development industries."Steve Morris, Creative Director, Burton Morris  Learn for your Life rightly puts learning centre stage as a key contributor to business success and to individual achievement. Not only is this a very entertaining read and comprehensive study, but it also provides practical tools to help people become better, more creative learners. Andrew Gibson, Head of Commercial Personnel, Cadbury Limited  This timely book combines a practical and creative approach to lifetime learning. It provides an accessible overview of the issues involved based on a wide variety of activities. Hugh Lloyd-Jones, "t" magazine  Learn for Your Life presents a progressive, democratic view of the role of learning within organisations and society. It introduces a new mnemonic and a clear agenda for lifelong learning - enjoyment, empowerment and economy. The authors are committed, well-informed practitioners who draw from their extensive collective experience of empowering individuals and companies. David N. Anderson MSC, a director of West Open Learning Network and a trainer for public sector organisations.  "This is a really useful book, full of useful practical advice and written with a powerful sense of passion about the capacity of each of us to learn throughout our lives." Bill Lucas, Chief Executive, Campaign for Learning  

From the Publisher

Financial Times Prentice Hall
"Learning is a double loop ... there is learning to solve a particular problem and then, more importantly, there is learning to do such things; that second loop that can change the way you live" - Charles Handy, The Age of Unreason

Management used to be a status. Now it's a skill, and managers need to learn a new skill every day. So the key to success as a manager is no longer how much you know, but how much, how effectively and how quickly you can learn. And the key to success for an organisation is how much and how quickly you can learn, amd learn again.

Curiosity will get you everywhere. You need to learn for your life.

"Everyone learns all the time. This book will help us all to do it a great deal better. It is the only book on the subject that is both wise and practical. It has set the standard and manages to communicate effortlessly and illuminatingly the key skill of our age – the ability to learn, improve and adapt. Put simply, everyone should read it and not just those in the education and development industries." - Steve Morris, Creative Director, Burton Morris

"Learn for your Life rightly puts learning centre stage as a key contributor to business success and to individual achievement. Not only is this a very entertaining read and comprehensive study, but it also provides practical tools to help people become better, more creative learners." - Andrew Gibson, Head of Commercial Personnel, Cadbury Limited

Edition details

• Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0273649175
• ISBN 13: 9780273649175
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 272