num_pages: 320
description: The Industrial Age has taught us how to break problems into parts but not how to build parts into solutions. We're baffled when we're confronted with complex challenges like recession political gridlock climate change childhood obesity pollution and failing schools. We see them as separate ills each requiring a separate remedy-if we can imagine a remedy at all.Why are so many jobs disappearing? Why are a few people getting rich while the rest of us struggle? How can we pay for the costs of healthcare? Why can't our trusted institutions behave ethically? What's the cause of governmental gridlock? How can we afford to educate our children? How do we stop damaging the ecosystem? Why do we create ugliness?Author Marty Neumeier suggests that these problems are merely symptoms of a much larger problem-our inability to deal with interconnected non-linear and amorphous challenges. It's not that our problems are too difficult he argues but that our skills are too basic. Success in the post-industrial era demands that we move our thinking from the static the linear and the step-by-step to the dynamic the holistic and the all-at-once.In this sweeping vision for personal mastery in a post-industrial era Neumeier presents five metaskills-feeling seeing dreaming making and learning-that can help you reach your true potential. They'll keep you two or three steps ahead of the machines the algorithms and the outsourcing forces of the robot curve. They'll also bring you greater creativity higher purpose and a deeper sense of fulfillment.Metaskills is more than a manifesto. It's a compass for visionary leaders policymakers educators and planners. It's a creative framework for designers engineers scientists and artists. It's a picture of the future that allows people from a wide range of disciplines industries and professions to envision new ways to create value together. Perhaps more important it's a long-overdue examination of what it means to be human in the 21st century.
language: English
title: Metaskills: Five Talents for the Robotic Age
publisher: New Riders