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Lifelong Learning

“Those who will succeed in the 21st century are not those who can read and write, but those who can unlearn, learn and re-learn, again and again.”

 

–Alvin Toffler

We live in times when breathtaking technological changes; dramatic business-paradigm shifts are occurring all around us. If you are out of touch with things for a week, you begin to feel like Rip van Winkle and seem several steps behind. In this super-charged climate, only the fittest survive and if you are not constantly aware of the changing environment around you—and able to adapt and change as necessary—you will find yourself slowly dropping out of the race.

It used to be that most people from the previous generation (at least in India) took up a job and stuck ...

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