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The Blurb On The Back:
Keeping people’s skills in sync with fast-changing markets is the biggest challenge of our time.
For companies and their employees to succeed, they need to focus on building skills for the future. The Expertise Economy shows how the most forward-thinking companies, big and small, are transforming their employees into experts and ultimately, creating their biggest competitive advantage.
Kelly Palmer, Silicon Valley thought leader from LinkedIn, Degreed, and Yahoo!, and David Blake, co-founder of Ed-tech pioneer Degreed, share their experiences and provide insights from innovative companies and industry thought leaders like:
- Google
- Airbnb
- Unilever
- NASA
- MasterCard
- Whitney Johnson
- Daniel Pink
- Sal Khan
- Todd Rose
- Clayton Christensen
The Expertise Economy dares you to let go of outdated and traditional ways of closing the skills gap, and challenges CEOs and business leaders to embrace the urgency of reselling and upskilling the workforce.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Kelly Palmer was LinkedIn’s chief learning officer and is on Degreed’s executive team. David Blake is co-founder and executive chairman of Degreed. This book makes some interesting suggestions about establishing on-going learning to ensure that companies stay ahead of the curve and don’t suffer a skills gap, but many are tech dependent and notably Degreed heavy and I’d have liked consideration of apprenticeships and cross-departmental training.
Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.
Keeping people’s skills in sync with fast-changing markets is the biggest challenge of our time.
For companies and their employees to succeed, they need to focus on building skills for the future. The Expertise Economy shows how the most forward-thinking companies, big and small, are transforming their employees into experts and ultimately, creating their biggest competitive advantage.
Kelly Palmer, Silicon Valley thought leader from LinkedIn, Degreed, and Yahoo!, and David Blake, co-founder of Ed-tech pioneer Degreed, share their experiences and provide insights from innovative companies and industry thought leaders like:
- Airbnb
- Unilever
- NASA
- MasterCard
- Whitney Johnson
- Daniel Pink
- Sal Khan
- Todd Rose
- Clayton Christensen
The Expertise Economy dares you to let go of outdated and traditional ways of closing the skills gap, and challenges CEOs and business leaders to embrace the urgency of reselling and upskilling the workforce.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Kelly Palmer was LinkedIn’s chief learning officer and is on Degreed’s executive team. David Blake is co-founder and executive chairman of Degreed. This book makes some interesting suggestions about establishing on-going learning to ensure that companies stay ahead of the curve and don’t suffer a skills gap, but many are tech dependent and notably Degreed heavy and I’d have liked consideration of apprenticeships and cross-departmental training.
Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.
