When you know your favourite problems, your mind subconsciously looks for answers. These problems, when posed as questions, help you become an explorer. They act like a flashlight and filter to help you navigate all the knowledge and change you encounter.

Boring is the new cool where EdTech is now BorED tech.

The 007 'entertrainers' are on a mission to help students learn, and have a licence to teach for the 21st century. When the classroom transforms into a stage, the students are no longer students; they are the audience. The lesson is no longer merely a lesson; it becomes a show. And, if teachers want their audience to come back again and again, day in and day out, then they’ve got to keep the show entertaining.

Reports estimate that more than 10 million papers get published every year. Yet, because of the complexity, hard to digest language, and nature of problems being addressed, working professionals are rarely able to use this treasure trove of information to learn and innovate. The big opportunity is to create 'communities of practice' and make academic research more relevant & digestible, so companies can turn that research into a source of competitive advantage.

A drop in measurable performance can almost always be traced back to behavioural issues that made the drop possible. Great teams are accountability-friendly and confront one another about those behaviours early, as they care enough about the team to take that risk before the results begin to suffer. Yet, most workplace learning interventions focus on building individual skills, as teams get evaluated on aggregating KPIs (key performance indicators) - like a game of golf. The big opportunity is to create a new ‘team learning model’ where evaluation of the team shifts to collective KBIs (key behavioural indicators) to create more coherence - like a game of basketball.

What if university libraries transformed into learning gyms? Where students could engage with different learning formats to flex their learning muscles. The librarian transformed into a learning engineer, to improve the learning diet, and students gained learning calories.

What if there was a way for you to build a deeper connection with your city while in a cab? Where you could stream a library of historical stories across the windows of the car, for every mile traveled. And elevate everyday traffic frustrations into adventures of learning!

Children are born naturally curious. This needs to be protected & nurtured so they can make their own leaps of imagination. The big opportunity for EdTech is to blend education & entertainment with curiosity as a new subject, textbooks as games & grades as experiences & levels.

With accelerating pace of change & access to opportunities, careers are going to be more about who you want to become as compared to what you do. The skills passport can become the ticket to career mobility in the 21st century.

Your earnings depend on your ability to take on bolder roles at the workplace. Your network and ability to build transferrable skills across experiences influence your chances of getting bolder roles.

Coaching is what turns ordinary jobs into extraordinary careers. So as you explore ways to grow your career, work in companies that scale through people and not process. Don’t just settle for a boss manager. Find a boss coach who is committed to helping you get better at your craft.

Too often EdTech products don’t reach their potential because they only focus on the content. The best products add layers over the content in order to tap into the core drivers of human behaviour.

Culture eats strategy for breakfast. Your say to do ratio is what programs culture into your team.

Research by Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab to explain ‘Zoom fatigue’ from a psychological perspective, and what each of us can do to fix the same.

Apprenticeship is an opportunity to transfer expertise from someone who knows how to do something to someone who is just learning. It’s a teacher-learner relationship that happens in the flow of work.

Being a good manager has less to do with technical skills and more to do with the mastery of softer and more nuanced skills like reading the room, building trust, giving feedback, setting goals and growing others. Employees are voting with their feet as they don’t feel ‘seen’ or ‘heard’ by their managers.

When building out a B2B product, ask yourself these 5 questions:

1. Why have previous solutions (if any) failed?

2. What are the high frequency, low importance and non glitzy activities that you can make better for your customers?

3. How can your solution become like oxygen in the customer’s life?

4. Who is the champion on the customer’s side that you can work with to pilot your solution?

5. How can you leverage the results from the pilot and the voice of your champion to scale your solution?

The ‘antidepressant manager’ is someone who makes our work enriching and helps us live a more fulfilled work life, that spills over into things we do outside work.

In the deck of skills for the 21st century workplace, focus is the unique and powerful joker which can combine with every other skill to help us win the game.

Outcome Led Growth: From SaaS to LaaS