Out Of The Box Thinking: Take It On!

Julie Sweet, the first woman to lead Accenture globally, heads a professional services juggernaut with nearly 800,000 employees worldwide. I heard her speak on a long-form podcast - one of my “not so guilty” pleasures - where she emphasized the strategic importance of continuous learning, ensuring it’s woven into Accenture’s hiring and talent development practices.

As a longtime coach, I see firsthand how resistant people can be to learning new things. The reasons are familiar: We don’t have time for it.  What good does it do anyway?  And as one of my clients recently put it, “It feels foreign..”

Those of us who need to work for a living and make money had better get over our resistance to learning new things because we are going to be left behind. That’s what I’m seeing.

Every day AI encroaches on routine tasks taking them over

I don’t feel bad about that. What good would it do? It’s not something that can be stopped.

What I know for sure is what differentiates human thinking from machine thinking is our creativity and our adaptability and our capacity to make connections among and between various observations. That’s what pushes innovation. 

And bringing innovation into our work makes it more satisfying, isn’t it so?

Machines will never be able to do what we can do.

But our minds will get stale if we don’t learn new things

Julie Sweet knows that and so do I.

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