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Training: adapt or die ...
The training manager is an endangered species.
Evolution is a compelling metaphor to consider in the business training environment. Evolution refers to changes in the inherited characteristics of organisms over successive generations. A central concept of natural selection is evolutionary fitness: the ability of an organism to survive and reproduce. This determines the size of its contribution to the next generation. Lower ‘fitness’ leads to being ‘selected against’ (with the potential to become extinct) and increased fitness results in being ‘selected for’ (to survive and become more dominant).
Natural selection is about adaptation. Charles Darwin observed: ‘It is not the strongest of the species that survives, ...
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