About learning:

About learning:
How do you learn? Very often we learn with a definitive target, such as a musical instrument, or a discipline subject such as accounting. This is great. They are more to-do, or knowledge based learning. Another way of learning is though imitation such as a child learns from his father. Other methods include experimentation, try and error, internalizing observations.

Learning in management, I think the most effective and sure learning is by doing. In doing, one is able to include the variations of external factors and the influence of implicit power and dynamics in his learning process.

If you have a desire to learn, be active and take up responsibilities. Let the fear of failure and desire to succeed be your teachers.


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Some people start their learning process by learning how to do something, then principles and theory. I start my learning on the theoretical first, then find ways to make the theory practical. That is why it takes much longer time for me to learn something.


Eric Kung Because you are an engineer by training and you still wear the engineer head in learning i.e. theory, design, build and then make it work while a business leader would say, "Make it work!" and then work out everything else later.


Peter Liu Does a business man really think like that? May be HK SME guys and may be because this is the way they think, they venture into and falls into the SME trap. May be your are right but I am not sure.


Eric is right in terms of behavior. The more we go on, the more it is like that for two reasons: 1. the world is moving very fast and if you do not take action first, you will be left behind; (I don't really buy this) 2. the things are getting to complicated to figure out without trying it out (I belong to the old camp, remember I am 70 in a few months)