#continual learning

Image request: A stylized visual representing a brain (neural network) gradually learning new concepts while retaining older ones – showing both growth and stability. Use vibrant colors to convey dynamism and innovation. The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence has fueled an insatiable demand for models capable of adapting to new tasks with minimal data – a realm where few-shot learning…

The Basics of a Successful Career

We enter the business world with the expectation that we are starting up a trajectory that will always climb to the next promotion, a continual progression of responsibility and authority. This belief is a myth. Rarely is a career path a constant climb up the ladder? A career path is a “hero’s journey,” one beset with all kinds of threats, setbacks, and obstacles before we attain a logical…

Often we’ve written a script in our heads that may or may not be accurate. But this script can be limiting us from attaining our full potential. In this linked post (Is Your “Story” Holding You Back? Six Ways to Rewrite It—and Supercharge Your Power by Nancy D. O’Reilly, PsyD), we discover ways our stories are limiting our leadership potential and how to write new stories. Think of these stories…

As artists, students of life, and difference-makers, we need to permit ourselves to show up as damaged, kind-hearted, empathetic human beings.

“From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art – a perfect compilation of human imperfections.” — Criss Jami (Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile). In a culture that rewards the image of pedantry, “having it all together,” and moral efficaciousness, developing the artist within is an endless challenge. As we are repeatedly being brainwashed by belief systems and lectured what to feel…

Trigger Points = Leadership Fails

Trigger points are those moments when our brain turns off, and our actions and reactions become “instinctive.” You know them, and you have them. Something happens that “sets you off.” It is a response that comes from deep inside, and it happens without you even thinking about what is happening. It is very visceral. Your pupils dilate, your heart rate increases, adrenaline is racing through your…

One of the most important decisions a leader can make in her/his role is “stay or leave,” but it is amazing how many otherwise very competent, seemingly successful people make a terrible decision. Be strategic with this decision. Is the feeling of career crisis due to a:

Struggling business model?

Bad boss?

Acknowledge bosses change?

Leadership void or crisis?

The business model is under stress?

Gl…

Work-Life Balance – A game of jump rope where your feet will get tangled

By Mollie Otieno, a Learning and Development expert

We’ve read it 101 times – work-life balance – how to succeed at “having it all” – and that does sound nice. The thing is that work-life balance isn’t a myth – it’s a straight-up lie. In Rich Jones’s post (Work-Life Balance is a Myth,) from June 6, 2016, he talks about work-life integration; but I feel this integration approach is impossible.…