The Expertise Economy

How the Smartest Companies Use Learning to Engage, Compete, and Succeed

By: Kelly Palmer, David Blake

Narrated by: Patricia Rodriguez

The workplace is going through a large-scale transition with digitization, automation, and acceleration. Critical skills and expertise are imperative for companies and their employees to succeed in the future, and the most forward-thinking companies are being proactive in adapting to the shift in the workforce. Kelly Palmer, Silicon Valley thought leader from LinkedIn, Degreed, and Yahoo, and David Blake, cofounder of ed-tech pioneer Degreed, share their experiences and describe how some of the smartest companies in the world are making learning and expertise a major competitive advantage.

The authors provide the latest scientific research on how people really learn and concrete examples from companies in both Silicon Valley and worldwide who are driving the conversation about how to create experts and align learning innovation with business strategy. Included are interviews with people from top companies like Google, LinkedIn, Airbnb, Unilever, NASA, and MasterCard; thought leaders in learning and education like Sal Khan and Todd Rose; and Thinkers50 list-makers Clayton Christensen, Daniel Pink, and Whitney Johnson.

©2018 Kelly Palmer and David Blake (P)2018 Gildan Media

Must read for any business leader

The most comprehensive look at how learning will propel our businesses into the next phase of growth. As skills, not the degree become the currency of talent, learning must be at the heart of our organizational strategy. Expertise Economy offered practical, jargon free, insights to building next generation learning organizations.

Fantastic Information

I finished this book in 2 days. I could not put it down. Very engaging.

Lifelong Learning is Vital

To stay relevant in today's work environment you have to be constantly learning. This book provides a solid framework for enabling a learning culture at the enterprise level as well as the individual level. I love the examples given of successful people and businesses who have embraced this idea of lifelong learning. We have so much information at our fingertips, The Expertise Economy helps make sense of how to harness that power and make sure it is focused and beneficial.

A must-read for every working professional.

Read or listen to this book immediately. I reread it as soon as I finished and then started nagging all of my friends and family to read it.

A must read!

This book brings awareness to the learning reality of today: there are multiple ways of learning and learning doesn't stop after obtaining a degree. It gives examples on how companies with this realization are moving ahead of the competition by partnering with Degreed to ensure their employees have the necessary skills to move the company forward. A win-win for the company and employees!