Jason Wingard > Quotes

“If we are to venture into unchartered territories, we must be prepared and willing to make mistakes”
― Jason Wingard, The Great Skills Gap: Optimizing Talent for the Future of Work

“For L&D leaders especially, the first step is realizing that our responsibility is not to educate people only for our organizations but to educate people for the world.”
― Jason Wingard, The Great Skills Gap: Optimizing Talent for the Future of Work

“53 percent of jobs that will be lost are projected to be those currently held by men,”
― Jason Wingard, The Great Skills Gap: Optimizing Talent for the Future of Work

“our educational systems focus on teaching science and business students to control, predict, verify, guarantee, and test data. It doesn’t teach how to navigate “what if” questions or unknown futures.”
― Jason Wingard, The Great Skills Gap: Optimizing Talent for the Future of Work

“Schools need to replicate real-world work, displacing some of the current focus on test-based achievement scores with more meaningful projects and tasks that better reflect traits valued in the workplace,”
― Jason Wingard, The Great Skills Gap: Optimizing Talent for the Future of Work

“I suspect distance learning will make huge inroads into undergraduate programs as well.”
― Jason Wingard, The Great Skills Gap: Optimizing Talent for the Future of Work

“the quest for depth rather than breadth can undermine learning outcomes and the broader goals of a liberal arts education because there is no one to weave the silos of information together into a coherent whole.”
― Jason Wingard, The Great Skills Gap: Optimizing Talent for the Future of Work

“tunnel vision on the technical dimensions can leave a worker of the future unprepared to use good judgment and interact with other people effectively.”
― Jason Wingard, The Great Skills Gap: Optimizing Talent for the Future of Work

“we’re no longer content even when we achieve good work-life balance; rather we seek work-life fulfillment.”
― Jason Wingard, The Great Skills Gap: Optimizing Talent for the Future of Work

“there is a growing gap between the demands of the changing higher education market and the market that most colleges and universities want to serve.”
― Jason Wingard, The Great Skills Gap: Optimizing Talent for the Future of Work

“learning inherently has social and emotional dimensions,”
― Jason Wingard, The Great Skills Gap: Optimizing Talent for the Future of Work

“employers use an array of sorting criteria (‘screens’) and ways of measuring candidates’ potential (‘evaluative metrics’) that are highly correlated with parental income and education.”
― Jason Wingard, The Great Skills Gap: Optimizing Talent for the Future of Work

“Successfully navigating complex change requires the ability to lead people through uncertainty.”
― Jason Wingard, The Great Skills Gap: Optimizing Talent for the Future of Work

“culture is not static and therefore not a “thing” we ever get to keep.”
― Jason Wingard, The Great Skills Gap: Optimizing Talent for the Future of Work

“Even the most valuable STEM skills have short half-lives.”
― Jason Wingard, The Great Skills Gap: Optimizing Talent for the Future of Work

“A geographic education is a necessary part of a complete education.”
― Jason Wingard, The Great Skills Gap: Optimizing Talent for the Future of Work

“culture does not live in slogans, posters, PowerPoint decks, or anything else outside of us and our own practices.”
― Jason Wingard, The Great Skills Gap: Optimizing Talent for the Future of Work

“Three-quarters of today’s college students are nontraditional in some way”
― Jason Wingard, The Great Skills Gap: Optimizing Talent for the Future of Work

“We must now begin to actively take part in automation, data analytics, and software development across industries and professions.”
― Jason Wingard, The Great Skills Gap: Optimizing Talent for the Future of Work

“In 1940, fewer than 25 percent of American adults had a high school diploma;”
― Jason Wingard, The Great Skills Gap: Optimizing Talent for the Future of Work

“Universities need to embrace new methods of instruction unbound from the credit-hour”
― Jason Wingard, The Great Skills Gap: Optimizing Talent for the Future of Work