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"What I'm here to tell you is that if it's like school, it doesn't work." Great, highly entertaining message from a guy who has taught at Yale, Stanford, and Northwestern. ****

It would be far too ambitious to try to summarize this book in the space of a blog posting (even my long blog postings).  So let me attempt to tease the reader with a few key messages from the book that I would summarize as follows: We are in need of a fundamental reassessment of our learning models New learning models will embrace and institutionalize tension Imagination and play are the fuel that will sustain learning

Jane & Jane

Gratton outlines five forces that will shape the future pattern of work: Technology (think 5 billion people, digitized knowledge, ubiquitous cloud). Globalisation (think continued bubbles and crashes, a regional underclass, the world becoming urban, frugal innovation). Longevity and demography (think Gen Y, increasing longevity, aging boomers growing old poor, global migration). Society (think growing distrust of institutions, the decline of happiness, rearranged families) Energy resources (think rising energy prices, environmental catastrophes displacing people, a culture of sustainability emerging).