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MBA or work? What should you choose in shaky times?
My nephew, who has five years’ work experience, had planned for an MBA in the US. Should he apply to B-schools now with the pandemic raging?
Tag : continuous-learning
Why we should re-examine the clichés in our heads
They stop us from digging deeper. We fail to see the downsides. We miss interesting opportunities. The antidote is to consciously seek the opposite
Failure, feedback loops and learning
The do-learn-do mantra to learn continually
Where do ideas come from?
Great ideas are built on a base of hard work and many small insights from a range of observations
Liberal arts in the digital age
‘The value of technology is in solving meaningful human problems’
In this podcast Scott Hartley, bestselling author of ‘The Fuzzy and the Techie’, talks about why tech knowledge is necessary, but not sufficient for entrepreneurs. They also need a broader curiosity about the world around them
Diwali cleaning for the mind
There is much good work, experiences and knowledge that exist in the world, ready to be tapped into and adapted to the firm’s context and prepare the firm for the future
Detailed planning is passé. A do-learn-do approach works better
You can meet audacious goals through a willingness to constantly learn, being open to feedback, and flexibility to adapt to changes
Chunk and compound to learn more, and learn fast
Re-discovering two mental models that humans have used to learn
Learning to learn
What colleges and business schools teach is becoming outdated rapidly in a dynamically changing world. They need to include systems thinking and deep listening as foundational disciplines to prepare students to be life-long learners
Stay young. Stay foolish
That line is now a cliché. But fact is, there is no better way to be. What it implies is: Stay curious. Ask questions. Keeping learning
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