Practical Networked Leadership Skills

You need to become a learner, and the current era demands that you develop learning strategies for keeping yourself in the game. Merely reading a good book or two won’t cut it — because reading won’t really put you in touch with the latest, real-world experiences and tools you could be privy to. So what’s it take to become a 21st-century learner? - See more at: http://thebuildnetwork.com/leadership/management/executive-learning-strategies/#sthash.TiCc9vbd.dpuf

A study group is akin to a customized DIY social innovation: It uses a self-created infrastructure of relationships to produce and retain knowledge that, importantly, does so not in the static, dry way of, say, a textbook, but in an interactive, experiential, personal, ever-evolving-and-adapting format — one that is exclusive to conversation and the relationships from whence it’s created. Study groups predicted college success because, in other words, it’s the variable that most clearly indicated someone had learned the most powerful and effective way to learn. -