By the time you figure out how to adapt to change, it’s usually too late – the world has changed again. The fact is, we are nearly always behind and nearly always working on yesterday’s problems. The solution, according to experts, is to learn during performance – to proceed with a plan, however rough, rather than waste time trying to predict or understand the future.
An organization that’s operating on the “business as usual” premise needs to step it into high gear. Business as usual simply no longer exists. Our society has been transformed from the industrial age to the information age to the present knowledge age. The focus of businesses should be on “human capital” to give organizations a competitive edge.
-Excerpts from the Manco Newsletter, 1999
“I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking something up and finding something else on the way.”
-Franklin P. Adams
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”
-Albert Einstein
“Some will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.”
-Thomas Blount
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
“One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.”
-John W. Gardner
“The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance.”
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
“The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.”
-B.B. King
“Learning is either a continuing thing or it is nothing.”
-Frank Tyger
“For the best return on your money, purse into your head.”
-Benjamin Franklin
“Wisdom…comes not from age, but from education and learning.”
-Anton Chekhov
“Learning never exhausts the mind.”
-Leonardo da Vinci
Be tenacious – the world will change, some things will go wrong, not everything works out. Life is messy. Don’t give up, use this as a learning experience and think of it as an opportunity. As someone once said: mistakes, problems, and the ‘proverbial bump in the road’ are all a fact of life, it’s your response, and what you do with it, that counts.
