Hyper-Learning

a new way of being, working, and learning

To thrive in the digital age, will you be able to unlearn and relearn at the speed of change? Ed’s latest book is full of practical guidance to help you take ownership of you—your mind, body, ego, and emotions—so you can stay relevant and beat the robots.

 
 
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Visualize the Hyper-Learning Journey

The journey follows a path that leads to a future enriched by meaningful relationships and meaningful work. See how you can join with others on the path to a more human workplace and collective flow. Read More

 

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Visualize Workplace Conversations—The Power of Choice

The #1 determiner of success in the Digital Age will be one’s ability to consistently have “High-Quality Making-Meaning Conversations” with Others. That requires you come to the conversation with Inner Peace and an open mind, totally focused on seeking to understand what the other person sees, means, and believes. Read More

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What Will the Post-Pandemic Leader Look Like?
What Will the Post-Pandemic Leader Look Like?

As the economy moves into recovery, your leadership muscles will be taxed in ways they never have been before, says Ed Hess. Here are nine skills you’d better start honing now.

Learning Digital Age Soft-Skills: A Behavioral Approach
Learning Digital Age Soft-Skills: A Behavioral Approach

Over the next decade several advancing and converging technologies are going to completely transform how we live and how we work and in large part, determine who will work.

The #1 Human Challenge in the Digital Age: Hyper-Learning
The #1 Human Challenge in the Digital Age: Hyper-Learning

Covid19 has been and remains a major adaptive challenge for every person and organization. It has illuminated how hard it is for us to adapt our routines, our ways of being and our ways of working – emotionally, cognitively and behaviorally. 

Soft Skills Key to Employability in Age of Automation
Soft Skills Key to Employability in Age of Automation

Soft skills will become even more important as automation increases. Learn what top workplace soft skills organizations will need and how to enable training.

More Automation Is Coming! Bulletproof Your Career!
More Automation Is Coming! Bulletproof Your Career!

Everyone knows that jobs have been automated over the last 20 years. But the number of those automated jobs will be a small number compared to what is coming over the next 10 years.

In the AI Age, “Being Smart” Will Mean Something Completely Different
In the AI Age, “Being Smart” Will Mean Something Completely Different

To date, many of us have achieved success by being “smarter” than other people as measured by grades and test scores, beginning from our early days in school. The smart people were those that received the highest scores by making the fewest mistakes.

How Humility Can Outsmart the Smart Machines
How Humility Can Outsmart the Smart Machines
Prediction: Half of Fortune 500 CEOs will be women before 2030
Prediction: Half of Fortune 500 CEOs will be women before 2030

In the digital age, leaders must excel at managing their ego, thinking and emotions, their emotional intelligence and their otherness — the ability to connect, engage and relate emotionally with others in positive ways. Women may be more naturally positioned to do so.

Will HR Become Irrelevant in the Digital Age?
Will HR Become Irrelevant in the Digital Age?

The Digital Age, with the convergence of several advancing technologies, will fundamentally change how we live and how we work. Automation will significantly reduce the number of human employees, because human beings will be needed only to do the tasks that technology can’t do well.

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The #1 Human Challenge in the Digital Age: Hyper-Learning
The #1 Human Challenge in the Digital Age: Hyper-Learning

Covid19 has been and remains a major adaptive challenge for every person and organization. It has illuminated how hard it is for us to adapt our routines, our ways of being and our ways of working – emotionally, cognitively and behaviorally. 

Human Flourishing in the AI Age — We Need A New Story
Human Flourishing in the AI Age — We Need A New Story

Over the next 10 years, advancing and converging technologies will be capable of transforming us, Homo Sapiens, into Techno-Homo Sapiens. We will be able to imbed technology inside of us that materially extends our brain power and biologically extends our life. Over time, we could split into two races — those who choose or have the opportunity to become Techno-Homo Sapiens and those who remain…

To succeed in the digital age, you’ll have to be a Hyper-Learner
To succeed in the digital age, you’ll have to be a Hyper-Learner

Success in the Digital Age requires ‘outsmarting’ evolving technology and remaining relevant through continuous learning and reinvention, or Hyper-Learning. McKinsey has predicted that, by 2030, more than 25 million jobs in the US will be automated in its 2019 report…