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Lifelong Learning Is Good for Your Health, Your Wallet, and Your Social Life

Harvard Business Review

Few of us will pursue college degrees as nonagenarians, or even as mid-career professionals (though recent statistics indicate that increasing numbers of people are pursuing college degrees at advanced ages). Outside of universities, ongoing learning and skill development is essential to surviving economic and technological disruption.

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Managers Aren’t Doing Enough to Train Employees for the Future

Harvard Business Review

They remind us that we’ve been here before and that, rather than simply increasing efficiency and cutting costs, emerging technologies can be used to augment our work and raise the quality of life for the population as a whole. Half say their employer provides adequate opportunities for internal career advancement.