"Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes."
Peter F. Drucker
20th century American author/educator/business consultant
Absolutely!
If your last "knowledge update" was completion of your undergraduate or post graduate degree 5, 10, 15, or 20+ plus years ago, you are out of date.
But it's never too late.
There is little value in an "educated person", whatever that is, but great value in one who is constantly being educated.
Which are you?
the fact that my mba was completed 10 years before personal computers came along is proof enough that this is true
ReplyDeleteJust to clarify, when I talk of being "out of date", I'm not suggesting the only way to be current is to go back to school. Few have the luxury or energy to do that even though it would be good if more of us did. Similar to the medical field where ongoing education updates are mandatory, the rest of us in business would benefit were we to seek out update education as well.
ReplyDeleteBut even without that knowledge updates are all around us. They come from reading and talking with others, asking questions about things we don't understand, and trying new things and ways. The only way we stop learning is to shut out input regardless of where it comes from, and unfortunately that happens a lot, particularly with us older folks.
The fact that we don't know everything (yes, including you, you recent college graduate) is a given. What's not a certainty is what if anything we do about it.