Make Lifelong Learning a Corporate Priority

September 12, 2017

Business leaders must make lifelong learning a corporate priority if they want to remain competitive, says a new article by McKinsey & Company.

The competitive advantage of early adopters of advanced algorithms and robotics will diminish rapidly, and companies will need to differentiate themselves by how their people interact with those tools and make complex decisions in the course of doing their work. Workers, managers and executives need to keep up with the machines and be able to interpret their results.

The authors note that while most companies focus on learning “hard” skills, such as coding, analytics and data science, true differentiation also requires an emphasis on “soft” attributes like collaboration, empathy and meaning making.

See the full McKinsey & Co. article: “Putting lifelong learning on the CEO agenda.”