naspers academy mission
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I PONDER THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION IN
THE UNIVERSE...
...HOW TO SURVIVE?
Charles Darwin, Author of
"How to survive."
READ THE MANUAL!
SO, WHAT’S THE SECRET?
ADAPT!
SMALL STEPS
OPPORTUNISTIC
USE FOR A DIFFERENT PURPOSE
SEE WHAT STICKS!
AH! TRIAL & ERROR
SO WHERE’S THE CATCH?
EVOLUTION DOES NOT CARE HOW MANY INDIVIDUALS ARE
SACRIFICED.
BUT I DO !THERE IS ONLY ONE OF ME!
HOW CAN I ADAPT MYSELF AND SURVIVE
AS AN INDIVIDUAL?
INTELLIGENT LEARNING
!
AND HOW DOES INTELLIGENT LEARNING
WORK?
#1: GET AN ADAPTIVE MINDSET#2: ADAPT QUICKER while
#3:FAILING LESS
MISSION:
CORPORATEUNIVERSITY=
Serves the strategic goals of the corporation
CORPORATEUNIVERSITY
(but don’t think campus and ivy)
MISSION:(The sub text)
“Teach individuals, businesses and the Group as such to re-invent themselves continuously”
Koos Bekker, CEO Naspers & MIH
3
KINDS OF ADAPTIVE CAPABILITIES
ONE:UNIVERSAL
SKILLS
TWO:
PERIODSKILLS
In 1950 few women had driver’s licenses, by 1960 you were dead in the job market
without one.
What’s next
?
NOBODY KNOWS!
HOW TO PREPARE?
Be on the cross roads of technology and the liberal arts!
We will offer you the opportunity to go and stand
at the intersection.(Watch this space!)
THREE:INDUSTRY SPECIFIC
SKILLS
PRIORITIZING:(The Eisenhower Matrix):
Important and urgent Important but not urgent!
Unimportant and not urgentUnimportant but urgent
!!! !
It’s the “Important, but not Urgent” that’s
strategically deadly.They kill you in the long
run.
WRAP UP!
Only that which serves...
REINVENTION!
I ADAPT,THEREFORE I AM!