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Forever Skills


Forever Skills

The 12 Skills to Futureproof Yourself, Your Team and Your Kids
1. Aufl.

von: Kieran Flanagan, Dan Gregory

13,99 €

Verlag: Wiley
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 20.05.2019
ISBN/EAN: 9780730359180
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 256

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<p><b>What skills will matter most for work, business and life in the future? Where should you focus your energy and effort when the world is changing at an extraordinary rate? How can you future proof yourself, your organisation and your kids?</b></p> <p>In this ground-breaking book Kieran Flanagan and Dan Gregory have interviewed hundreds of successful business people, educators, futurists, economists and historians to uncover the key skills that will always be critical to success in business and in life.</p> <p>Where most futurists increase your sense of panic and anxiety with dystopian images of the not-too-distant future characterised by Artificial Intelligence (AI) taking our jobs, algorithms hacking our most private moments and Austrian-accented cyborgs raising our children, Kieran and Dan remind us that we need to look beyond the things changing around us and focus on the things that won’t change within us.</p> <ul> <li>Identify the skills you have that will always be relevant</li> <li>Gain insight from business leaders, entrepreneurs, educators, sport leaders and more</li> <li>Learn why each skill matters, and how to make it stronger</li> <li>Discover the things that <i>won</i><i>’</i><i>t</i> change as we inch toward the future</li> </ul> <p>These 12 FOREVER SKILLS are designed to set you up for whatever the future may throw at you plus help you get more success in your work and life, today.</p>
<p>Acknowledgements ix</p> <p>Introduction: Where might we find certainty in a world of change? xv</p> <p>1. The Three Spheres of Change 1</p> <p><b>Part 1: Creativity Skills 10</b></p> <p>2. Insight 17</p> <p>3. Conversion 35</p> <p>4. Problem solving 49</p> <p>5. Agility 63</p> <p><b>Part 2: Communication Skills 76</b></p> <p>6. Influence 83</p> <p>7. Team building 101</p> <p>8. Trust 115</p> <p>9. Translation 129</p> <p><b>Part 3: Control Skills 142</b></p> <p>10. Self-control 147</p> <p>11. Resource management 159</p> <p>12. Order 173</p> <p>13. Implementation 185</p> <p>Conclusion 199</p> <p>Appendix A: Looking back to look forward 203</p> <p>Appendix B: Today’s workplace trends 211</p> <p>Appendix C: Ten years of work and research 217</p> <p>The authors 225</p> <p>The podcast 226</p> <p>Index 227</p>
<p><b>KIERAN FLANAGAN</b> is a global thought leader in commercial creativity and DAN GREGORY is an expert in behavioural strategy. They are the strategic and creative team behind the most successful new product launch in Australian history, have helped entrepreneurs build internationally successful businesses and worked with some of the world's most influential organisations.
<p>What skills will matter most for work, business and life in the future? <p>Where should you focus your energy and effort when the world is changing at an extraordinary rate? <p>How can you future proof yourself, your organisation and your kids? <p>In this ground-breaking book Kieran Flanagan and Dan Gregory have interviewed hundreds of successful business people, educators, futurists, economists and historians to uncover the key skills that will always be critical to success in business and in life. <p>Where most futurists increase your sense of panic and anxiety with dystopian images of the not-too-distant future characterised by Artificial Intelligence (AI) taking our jobs, algorithms hacking our most private moments and Austrian-accented cyborgs raising our children, Kieran and Dan remind us that we need to look beyond the things changing around us and focus on the things that won't change within us. <p>These 12 FOREVER SKILLS are designed to set you up for whatever the future may throw at you plus help you get more success in your work and life, today.

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