How Creative Workers Learn: Develop your career with emergent learning and succeed in the creativity age

by Alexandre Magno

“In this thought provoking and insightful book, Alexandre puts forward a new model of learning fit for the 21st century – one that is more emergent and ultimately effective. Embrace Learning 3.0 and play your part in the learning revolution that’s already underway.” LAURENCE MCCAHILL – CO-FOUNDER OF THE HAPPY STARTUP SCHOOL BRIGHTON, UNITED KINGDOM” “Reading Learning 3.0 was like a million light bulbs coming on at once. This book answers the biggest challenge facing my business and all businesses in the knowledge economy.” JACK HUBBARD – CEO OF PROPELLERNET BRIGHTON, UNITED KINGDOM ABOUT LEARNING 3.0 The future belongs to the creative workers that are able to out-learn their competition. In a world or writers, programmers, testers, managers the single most important enabler for career success is Learning! Drawing on years of experience, and study of the creative worker professions, Magno an accomplished IT consultant, abandoned his career, sold his company to dedicate his life to help you learn better. Over the last few years he’s studied all kinds of professionals, from IT to the medical profession, from management to sales, to understand and document how these professionals learn. This book collets his lessons learned, practices and tools that you can learn to become a successful creative worker. How Creative Workers Learn takes you on a journey of discovery, you will understand how you can effectively manage your career, using learning as your tool to build a future you can be proud of. “We all need to learn new skills and ideas, for our work or personal lives. If you have ever wondered why some courses work better than others, you need Learning 3.0. Alex explains the difference between pouring information into passive heads, following some approach “by the book,” and having the tools to learn on our own. Learning to learn is more difficult – and the rewards are much greater. Read this book and see how you can learn to learn.” JOHANNA ROTHMAN – AUTHOR OF MANAGE IT! BOSTON, UNITED STATES

Genres: Management, Education, Productivity

180 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 1, 2015

Reviews

[Alejandro · Rating 5 out of 5]

I put my hands in this book from Alexandre Magno some time ago and, until today, I read only parts of the book when I was looking for specific ideas. The full reading of this book was a pleasant surprise, as I'm doing it in a moment when I'm thinking of my priorities for career development.

Although brief, the book is full of narratives and presents clear and well-articulated arguments justifying the importance of the student being a protagonist of its learning. Alexandre points out the perils and limitations of prescriptive/traditional learning to deal with complexity and introduces the idea of a learning system to overcome the limitations of the traditional approach.

As I had the opportunity to follow Alexandre's work as a trainer and consultant for some time, it was especially eye opening how he stands about training and consulting services. The book also gathers an excellent list of references that may be useful for the readers that, like me, want to delve into this subject.

Alexandre is beginning a journey that, in my opinion, makes a lot of sense. It seems this is the first of a sequence of books he plans to write and I would love to see this learning system in a more concrete way. I would also be glad to see some reflection about academia, the challenges and future possibilities in this world of increased speed and complexity.

Excellent book!

[Irina Teteruk · Rating 5 out of 5]

I got a great pleasure to find a new focus on learning in the contemporary world and changing focus from 'expert in the room' to 'collaboration and mutual ideas and experience enrichment". Tool Learning Canvas and recommendations for facilitators are also valuable. Highly recommended for trainers and consultants.

[Raphael Donaire · Rating 4 out of 5]

Alexandre consegue conectar em sua obra temas e questões que permeiam o dia a dia de um profissional do século 21. A partir de uma definição do que é um profissional criativo, a obra nos faz refletir sobre a nossa responsabilidade sobre o caminhar da nossa carreira, da distinção entre emprego e carreira e, como nos tornarmos uma conexão entre trabalho e vida.

Sabendo que somos pessoas em busca de conhecimento, a obra apresenta três modelos de aprendizado onde somos receptores de conteúdo (1.0) ou esperamos respostas de um especialista a partir de nossas dúvidas (2.0) ou quando somos protagonistas do aprendizado (3.0).

Sobre o modelo 3.0, a obra traz que o fluxo de aprendizado passa pelas etapas de problematização, pesquisa, conexão, prática e compartilhamento. Além disso, devemos aprender a partir da nossa realidade e olhando o aprendizado como algo que será útil para encarar os desafios futuros.

No final do livro, Alexandre compartilha algumas técnicas para estruturar o aprendizado a partir da nova perspectiva proposta.

De forma lúdica, com ótimos exemplos e com uma narrativa bem estruturada, sugiro a leitura caso você queira compreender novas formas de aprender e ensinar em um cotidiano onde não há a divisão do eu (vida) e o do que faço (trabalho).

[Giovani Salvador · Rating 5 out of 5]

When I started talking with Alexandre Magno about new ways of working and learning, the context was democratic schools and Ricardo Semler's ideas from his book. And then, looking at learning 3.0 ideas, everything is now connected. This book has the ideas related to democratic schools, where educators and students pretty much engage together in the process of Learning. I am pretty sure we need to tear down the walls that exist in the learning process and all the hierarchy applied in Learning 1.0 and 2.0, depicted in this book. This book will definitely help us to get there.

[Fabrício Silva · Rating 3 out of 5]

É um livro interessante para quem quer entender um pouco mais sobre a evolução dos processos de aprendizagem. O autor foca muito em mostrar o que é a aprendizagem 3.0 e vender o seu conceito. Durante a leitura fica muito claro as vantagens desse modelo de aprendizagem já que ele é uma forma mais ativa de aprender. Além do mais é um método foca em resolução de problemas, o que me atraiu bastante.

Vale a pena a leitura. O único ruim é que o autor fala que esse é o primeiro de uma série de 3 livros...

[Alvaro · Rating 4 out of 5]

Even though it started out more like a marketing tool for the author, I could get the value it promised a little more further (kind of half-way through it). Then, the invented narrative started ringing some bells and the techniques presented started to make sense. At the end the book does delivers some tools to aid self-learning and a system that allows a group of people to efficiently learn on their own way.

[Celso Martins · Rating 4 out of 5]

It is a very helpful, useful and thoughtful book. I'm pretty sure that Alex delivered a very nice tool. More than a tool, a mindset. But I down one star due to his radical vision on consultancy while he is explaining the Learning 2.0 fundamentals. In my opinion a very limited vision, throwing my friend in the induction problem trap.

It is a funny and delightful reading.

[Reinaldo Luckman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Um excelente livro para profissionais envolvidos com educação ou para quem quer entender quais são as novas formas de se aprender em nosso mundo complexo. É chocante ver o quanto nossas metodologias tradicionais de aprendizado estão atrasadas.

[Jana Pereira]

It is a good reading to understand the context we are and how we can be creative working together to people (it a king obvious - but somehow it is forgiven in someway). This book shows a couple tools and theories that helps us to see options about how we can works

[Mario Lucero · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is awesome. It would allow you to consider new ways of learning.

I strongly recommend to read this book that it will be very helpful for improving the way of getting knowledge.

[Rodrigo Ramos · Rating 5 out of 5]

livro excelente com uma nova visão sobre a aprendizagem e os profissional criativos.

[Otávio Augusto · Rating 3 out of 5]

Não me prendeu muito, e absorvi pouca coisa sobre o livro