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Life Long Learning (below)

Quotes for the Month

Job Seeking Tips: Management and Executive Positions On the Rise

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Life Long Learning

A few years ago, I was asked to give a brief overview of the evolution of human knowledge for a class I was teaching. Not to bore you with all the details but just to give you a sense of the speed at which human knowledge is expanding, here are a few facts:'Source, University of Houston, Brief History of Training & HRD also see:http://homepages.gac.edu/~fister/doubling.html

From 1750 to 1900 all human knowledge doubled (150 years), 1900 to 1950 (50 years) it doubled again, 1950 to 1965 (15 years) it doubled again. It is estimated that the sum of all human knowledge is now doubling at the rate of every 24 to 48 months. Last week, I spoke with a client who is a CIO and he said, “Technically speaking, what I knew last year is obsolete this year.”

This trend is obvious even with the rapid technology improvements in cell phones just over the past year. This rapid expansion of human knowledge is occurring in every field of human enquiry.

Fortunately for us, research into the workings of the brain is showing that with an active, healthy life style and stimulating, challenging mental activity, new brain cells and synapses are formed even in later life. People who are in their forties today can expect to live to well over 100.

However, even with great brain power, how are we to keep up? The fact of the matter is that none of us, no matter how brilliant, will be able to keep up with it all. Therefore, greater team work and interdependency is required on every level of human endeavor from families and industries to nations.

The key to living well with this rapid change is to tune into areas of great personal interest regarding work, hobbies and community activities, and learn in depth about those areas. By gaining expertise in specific fields, we then become a valuable resource to others. So it follows that we are not only becoming life long learners but life long teachers, as well.

This rapid growth in knowledge is like being at a great banquette; we do not have to eat everything on the table, just the things we most enjoy. Bon appétit!

Quotes for the Month

“Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.”

Confucius, Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC)

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

John F. Kennedy, speech prepared for delivery in Dallas
the day of his assassination, November 22, 1963
35th president of US 1961-1963 (1917 - 1963)

“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”

George Santayana US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 - 1952)

“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.”

Doris Lessing

Job Seeking Tips:
Management and Executive Positions On the Rise

Abridged: Execunet.com

INDIANAPOLIS, IN -- Climbing the corporate ladder may be getting easier. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of management and executive positions across the United States is expected to rise 13.6 percent within this decade. By 2010, it is estimated that this growth will result in the creation of more than 5 million management and executive positions.

The technology industry is the front runner as the number-one growth industry over the next 10 years and offers job seekers the most management opportunities. Despite being the leading industry for growth, technology is hardly the only avenue offering job seekers the opportunity to advance their careers. Other opportunities include positions in health care, real estate, sales, associations, non-for-profits, human resources, accounting, and many more fields and industries.

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