Continual Learning, A Fundamental Of Survival

By M. Saraswathi BANGALORE (India), July 11 (Bernama) -- Continual learning is the fundamental of survival in a competitive world, and organisations such as the Asian Institute of Management (AIM), play a key role in providing that platform, said Rosmah Mansor. “The fundamental of today’s survival is the continual de-learning of the old and outmoded ways and re-learning of new developments that are more relevant to the contemporary environment. “Some, term this as defreezing and freezing of the mind,” the wife of Prime Minister Najib Razak said at the AIM Alumni Breakfast meeting here on Wednesday. Rosmah, on a one-day visit to Bangalore, is scheduled to attend and deliver a keynote address on 'Developing Talent for the Future' at the Asia HRD (Human Resources Development) Congress Awards 2012 later Wednesday. Also present were former Philippine president Fidel V. Ramos, and M. P. Singh, who is chairman of the Federation of AIM Alumni Association Inc and president of AIM Alumni Association of India. Rosmah said the technique of yesteryears might no longer apply to today's problem. "In such a landscape, our learning can never stop, or we may risk being left behind by our people and our organisation. "No matter how educated we may be, we cannot afford to close our hearts and minds to the cycle of learning," she noted. Rosmah, who was trained at AIM in Manila in 1984, said: “Institutions like AIM provide us with the support for our continual learning. At AIM, we were taught that we must become borderless leaders and managers as we are faced with borderless issues. "To emerge as global talents and be able to operate in any part of the world is the distinctive characteristic and competence required in an increasingly free-market world. “For many of us, the training at AIM has opened new fortes of opportunities and many too, were able to go where they aspired to be.” -- BERNAMA