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The Expertise Economy

How the Smartest Companies Use Learning to Engage, Compete and Succeed

Kelly Palmer and David Blake

Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2018

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Kelly Palmer and David Blake explain that today’s leaders should focus on skills as part of their business strategies. They must support self-directed and peer learning by investing in practices and technologies that empower employees to manage their own learning and career goals. Workplace learning has changed in leading organizations and among top employees. With near unlimited, often free and frequently high-quality learning available – everywhere and anytime – active learners no longer need to wait for corporate training. Education has to change; Palmer and Blake, executives at the education technology company Degreed, show you how. With the caveat that the book also promotes their firm, getAbstract recommends this indispensable leaders’ guide to modern workforce development to executives, managers, teachers, learners and even parents.

Take-Aways

Organizations should commit to lifelong, continual, self-directed employee learning.
As a company, create a “learning culture” that supports self-directed learning and employees’ pursuit of corporate and career goals.
Connect employee work and learning to a larger shared purpose.

About the Authors

Formerly the chief learning officer at LinkedIn, Kelly Palmer is now part of the executive team at Degreed, an education technology company where David Blake is co-founder and executive chairman. getAbstract has a content partnership with Degreed.

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L. V. 2 years ago

Very interesting read. Companies in general should prioritize the integration of
career-path tools with a digital learning platform. It would be amazing if that would enable learners even better to find a well-defined road to the realization of their career goals.
S. . 4 years ago

Very inspiring summary. Loop learning and skills portfolio are tools through which learners can improve the quality and retention of their learning and build their road to subject matter expertise

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