Written by: Vickie Sullivan  |  June 11, 2013

Look For Disruption

The best place to get advanced heads up on what’s next?  Check out a system that is failing and everyone knows it.  Inside that failure is:  1) the realization that the status quo isn’t working; and, 2) the open space that makes room for the never-done-before.

A great example is this Fast Company article on disruptive trends in education.  We’ve all heard about the skills gap, and how our current K-12 education system isn’t preparing our kids for today’s workforce.  This article reports some really innovative solutions out there.

Now take this article and substitute “K-12” with “adult learning” and you will see what I believe could be next in corporate training.  Think about it:  could “optimized learning” work in our environment?  A version of it could.

Being cutting-edge isn’t always about doing something never done before.  Innovation can take the seeds planted somewhere else and transplant them into a new environment.  And isn’t that the role of thought leaders…to be just a few steps ahead of the rest of us?

Happy planting!