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Learning to Succeed: Rethinking Corporate Education in a World of Unrelenting Change
By: Jason Wingard
Copyright 2015 Amacom
Price $29.95
Pages: 220 with Notes and Index
You can never stop learning. It’s time we took learning seriously. For many years, business in general was static enough, or at least much more static than today, that you could go to college, get your MBA, and then be set for life. When I was younger I remember being the only one in my sales staff who even read business books. Hell, I remember when business books were a rarity, taking up about a foot of the bookstore’s shelf. Now, of course, we are all learning. At least we should be.
In this new, important book by Jason Wingard, he rightfully describes what it is going to take to succeed from now on. Our marketplaces are now so dynamic that we have to institute formal learning programs to stay head of the game.
In fact, the author himself is the chief learning officer at Goldman Sachs, one of the few companies that has adapted this new way of thinking. Now Wingard shares with us what it is going to take to create and implement a true Learning to Succeed program in our own companies.
He takes us through a step-by-step, chapter-by-chapter journey to make sure that we not only completely understand the need for an educational plan but also how it should be made up, who should run it, who should benefit by it and how to keep it going.
This is a book that is ahead of its’ time (just barely) but is providing a great blueprint for the future of doing business in this fast growing, fast changing cross cultural global economy.
I really like the way he incorporates actual cases from a number of companies, including Proctor and Gamble, Sears Holdings, and Comcast, explaining how each of these companies handled its learning program, from implementation to sustenance and how they are fairing today allowing us to learn from their challenges and successes.
This is a great book to use as a primer for developing your company’s own learning program, not s subject to be taken lightly.
Please read this book and pass it on the other leaders in your company and then get to work on your own Learning to Succeed program.
