Prologue: Solutions for Those Worried About the Future of Jobs

Chapter 1: Why Learning Agility Matters: Key Strategies for Preparing for an Age of Uncertainty

Why We Must Seek Opportunity Even in Crisis
The ability to respond quickly and flexibly to change
Learning Agility: The Key to Survival and Growth

Chapter 2: Who Am I?: Self-Awareness for Discovering Your Capabilities

Take time to ask yourself questions.
Are you evaluating yourself objectively?
What am I attracted to?
What is my preferred personality type?
Discover and strengthen your strengths

Chapter 3: Can You Find Potential for Growth?: The "Will to Grow" to Develop the Strength to Persevere

Settle or Grow
Career management also requires strategy.
A person with outstanding skills solves problems quickly.
Change your perspective on role models
Actively utilize AI as a growth tool.

Chapter 4: Can You Solve Problems Creatively?: Open-Minded Thinking for Overcoming Difficult Situations

Throw away useless knowledge and fill yourself with new knowledge.
If you want to make a difference, start by asking questions.
Think three-dimensionally, even about invisible problems.
Listen to different opinions
How New Ideas Are Born

Chapter 5: Can We Reflect Through Experience?: "Experiential Learning": Finding Lessons Even in Small, Everyday Events

Don't miss the Kairos moment
Small experiences lead to big growth.
A reflective attitude is competitiveness.
Don't hide your mistakes, reveal them.
Feedback is a tonic that helps growth.

Chapter 6: Can I Increase My Value?: The "Change Challenge": Overcoming Fear and Comfort

What do I want to do
Get out of your comfort zone
Enjoy the challenge
What kind of people do future leaders prefer?
Be proactive in making yourself known to the world.

Chapter 7: When Learning Agility Becomes a Habit: Sustainable Practices for Everyday Life

The Secret of Top Gun Training
Immersion makes the difference
Knowledge is only meaningful when put into practice.
Think big, start small
My own growth roadmap

Epilogue: Opportunity Comes to Those Who Prepare

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"The ability to learn is more important than ability."
Focus on learning agility, the potential to turn crises into opportunities.

In this VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous) era, why should we focus on learning agility? As recently as the 2000s, companies sought talent with expertise, global capabilities, and creativity.
As long as you have outstanding skills in your field, you can be guaranteed a stable job.
However, today's companies prefer people with a challenging spirit and the ability to proactively respond to change, and they want to hire people with the excellence to analyze and understand new situations.
In other words, if you are a strong and agile person who can adapt to change and solve problems quickly, you have more opportunities for promotion and it is much easier to be recognized for your achievements.
Furthermore, people with high learning agility contribute not only to their own growth but also to the growth of their organization, increase work engagement, and have a positive impact on productivity.

Learning agility is a term first introduced in 1994 in a book written by Michael Lombardo and Robert Eichinger, project managers and behavioral scientists at the Center for Center Leadership (CCL), an American leadership research institute.
They defined learning agility as "the willingness and ability to learn new skills to perform well in challenging situations encountered for the first time."
Learning agility is no longer just a theory; it is a practical aid for navigating an era of change.
The author, who has worked in the field of talent development for 25 years, prides himself on being an expert in his field. However, he began studying learning agility due to anxiety about whether his expertise would be relevant in the age of artificial intelligence.
By reviewing related papers and books, meeting various people, and listening to their stories, my thoughts and perspectives broadened, and I realized that the process of breaking away from familiar methods and learning about unfamiliar fields is the beginning of change.
And he recalls that the journey of writing this book itself was a process of training himself in learning agility.


How Great Leaders Are Born
Five Skills You Need to Achieve Bigger Goals

Five skills are needed to develop learning agility.
First, you must have your own direction by understanding and utilizing your tendencies and strengths through ‘self-awareness.’
Second, you must have a 'will to grow' to acquire knowledge and continuously develop your career with a learning mindset.
Third, we need an 'open mind' that allows us to create creative ideas by emptying ourselves of past knowledge and stereotypes and embracing diversity with an open mind.
Fourth, experiential learning, which involves finding things to learn from others' feedback and daily life, not being afraid of making mistakes, and being able to reflect on oneself, is also important.
Fifth, you must be able to elevate your value by stepping out of your comfort zone and experiencing new tasks and roles through the 'challenge of change.'


The author cites NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang as a prime example of someone who possesses these five skills.
During his school days, he focused on math and science, subjects he was good at, entered university at the age of 16, and developed graphics cards used in the games he loved.
When managing a company, he recognized internal pride as a greater threat than external competitors, and he sought continuous growth rather than resting on past success.
We flexibly considered that graphics processing units could become the core of artificial intelligence learning and high-performance computing, going beyond the conventional understanding that they are simply used for graphic calculations.
Although the company initially failed to enter the mobile chip market, it used that experience to reorganize its technology and strategy, achieving success in new areas including artificial intelligence.
Not resting on its laurels, the company has invested heavily in the field of artificial intelligence, resulting in its emergence as a global leader.
There aren't many people with learning agility as outstanding as Jensen Huang.
If you can turn the learning agility that only a few possess into your own weapon, you can develop the strategies needed to achieve bigger goals.

Opportunity comes to those who are prepared.
The habit of discovering your own Kairos and drawing a growth roadmap

'Kairos', derived from the Greek god of opportunity, refers to a subjective time with a special meaning.
For example, consider a working person considering their career path who participates in career development training, or a parent who wants to solve a childcare problem and attends a lecture by a parenting expert.
At this time, working people can use what they learned in career development training to become more proficient and achieve better results in their next job, and parents who have been trying to solve childcare problems wisely can listen to lectures from childcare experts and get hints on new business ideas and try to start a business.
People who actively take action and move to solve their own problems are always given the opportunity to capture their own 'Kairos'.


Even if you understand the characteristics of people with high learning agility, change will not occur if you do not put them into practice.
But because putting it into practice is the most difficult step, many people stop here.
If you have found your Kairos, you should be able to make small changes and practice them consistently as habits.
Let's ask ourselves what our ideal goal is, examine our current state, and then think about specific ways to achieve that goal.
Developing the habit of creating your own growth roadmap is an effective way to increase your chances of success.
By making the most of the knowledge you've learned from this book, developing the habit of intentional planning and immersing yourself in your goals, you'll emerge as a leader who can fearlessly adapt to any change.