It used to be that the classroom prepared you for a career.  Today your lifetime career is a classroom, where you must be continuously learning.  In doing so, the horizons open up and opportunities abound.

The traditional straightjacket of education and career have been, like most things, disrupted. In it’s place, possibility and creative destruction..

Along with this comes a whole new way of doing business.  A place, not unlike sports, where the newcomer, the rookie has an important role to play.  Without Joe Panik, the SF Giants don’t win a world series.  

In today business world, information isn’t siloed or hidden.  It’s available for all, and it gives the rookie a more level playing field in which to work, bring new ideas and new ways of looking at the world.

This is the back drop for Liz Wiseman's look at    Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work.

My conversation with Liz Wiseman: