{"id":8104,"date":"2020-01-21T09:12:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T17:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog-prod.qad.com\/blog\/?p=8104"},"modified":"2020-01-21T09:12:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T17:12:21","slug":"innovation-relies-on-a-foundation-of-learning-and-reinvention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qad.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/innovation-relies-on-a-foundation-of-learning-and-reinvention","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Relies on a Foundation of Learning and Reinvention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;8105&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][vc_column_text]<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn a world of change, the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned shall find themselves perfectly suited for a world that no longer exists.\u201d\u00a0\u2015\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eric_Hoffer\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eric Hoffer<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, American moral and social philosopher<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the olden days\u2014the latter half of the 20<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> century\u2014\u201cknowing\u201d was everything. People were urged to attain higher levels of education than what was already socially accepted. Why? Because a solid education was deemed the key to a successful life. So, people went back to school in droves, buying up books and educating themselves to pursue satisfying careers. And then a funny thing happened. College dropouts began upending the business world.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">College is Not the Only Path to Success<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a recent study conducted by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thirdway.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Third Way<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, as featured in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jackkelly\/2019\/10\/03\/college-is-no-longer-the-path-to-success-new-study-shows-that-college-and-high-school-graduates-earn-about-the-same\/#1accb6e847dd\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Forbes<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, half of U.S. colleges in 2018 left their students earning under $28,000 a year. The increasing pressure put upon high school students to attend universities paired with rising tuition costs has created this idea that student debt is simply inevitable, as long as there\u2019s a college degree in the crosshairs. The truth is experience and skills hold more weight than a piece of paper saying you studied theories about experience and skills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1975, Bill Gates left Harvard to found Microsoft. Steve Jobs dropped out to start Apple. Michael Dell started his company while still in school. Oracle\u2019s Larry Ellison, Facebook\u2019s Mark Zuckerberg\u2014both college dropouts. With enough financial backing, just about anyone can be an entrepreneur. But to become a visionary, you must carry sales and leadership skills, find ways to constantly educate yourself <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qad.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/what-makes-a-good-business-mentor\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and others<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and most importantly, never stop dreaming.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The story is not limited to technology visionaries either. Consider former president Abraham Lincoln, actor Brad Pitt, singer Adele, entrepreneur Walt Disney, or businessman Dhirubhai Ambani. All successful innovators who never earned college degrees. Even Oprah Winfrey left school to focus on a career in media\u2014and now she\u2019s worth an estimated $2.7 billion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The point isn\u2019t that you can succeed despite the lack of a degree. Visionaries with degrees do great things too. Of course you can succeed, as long as you never stop learning and imagining what could be, just like these successful innovators. The trick is to approach the world with an open mind, not just with what you learned in a school environment. There have always been alternate paths to success, it\u2019s about how you define your approach to professional development and continued learning.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learn to Adapt and Navigate the Future or Become Irrelevant<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The only constant in life is change. The world we know today will become different next week, next month and even more so next year. It may even be different by this afternoon. You can never predict the future, you can only imagine it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Imagination relies on the freedom to think, but the ability to think relies on education. The value of an education isn\u2019t the ability to say, \u201cThere! I learned that fact and aced the test.\u201d Education\u2019s value lies in teaching people how to think, how to analyze and how to research, so the person can grow, adapt and innovate as the world around them changes. It\u2019s about being adaptive and willing to accept new realities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The world makes it easy for us to stop learning. People can immerse themselves in social media, online games and reality TV while forgetting that great literature, art and music exist, or that amazing new products and solutions are invented every day\u2014and we will need to learn how to navigate those new playing fields or risk becoming proverbial dinosaurs. Even as there might not yet be a need to reinvent the wheel, or a need to rethink certain <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/horribly-designed-products-2017-4#automatic-hand-dryers-seem-like-a-good-idea-in-theory-and-some-like-dysons-airblade-actually-get-the-job-done-but-often-the-machines-just-blow-air-onto-your-hands-without-really-drying-the-dampness-and-good-luck-if-the-motion-sensor-is-weak-7\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">products that have withstood innovation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> altogether, reinvention is a vital building block for innovation.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Recipe for Innovation Success<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Make no mistake. There are many different paths to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qad.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/small-yet-mighty-thoughts-on-innovation\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">innovation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Though it is best achieved with an established foundation of learning and willingness to explore the facets of reinvention. Some of that foundation happens in the form of higher education, but much of it happens outside those ivy-covered walls. Success comes to those who take what they learned in school, add a sprinkle of imagination, a dash of life-long learning, and a pinch of experience to arrive at something completely new. That\u2019s a recipe for success we can all use, at any age and in any industry.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;8105&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][vc_column_text]\u201cIn a world of change, the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned shall find themselves perfectly suited for a world that no longer exists.\u201d\u00a0\u2015\u00a0Eric Hoffer, American moral and social philosopher In the olden days\u2014the latter half of the 20th century\u2014\u201cknowing\u201d was everything. 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