This document discusses the importance of adaptation and intelligent learning for survival as an individual. It argues that individuals must get an adaptive mindset, adapt more quickly while failing less. This can be achieved through a corporate university that teaches universal skills, periodic skills that change over time, and industry-specific skills. The key is focusing on important but not urgent tasks that strategically prepare one for the future through continuous reinvention.

1. I PONDER THE MOST
IMPORTANT QUESTION IN
THE UNIVERSE...

2. ...HOW TO
SURVIVE?

3. READ THE
MANUAL!
Charles Darwin,
Author of
"How to survive."

4. SO, WHAT’S THE
SECRET?

5. ADAPT!

6. SMALL STEPS

7. OPPORTUNISTIC

8. USE FOR A DIFFERENT
PURPOSE

9. SEE WHAT STICKS!

10. AH!
TRIAL &
ERROR

11. SO WHERE’S
THE CATCH?

12. EVOLUTION DOES NOT
CARE HOW MANY
INDIVIDUALS ARE
SACRIFICED.

13. BUT I DO !
THERE IS ONLY ONE OF ME!

14. HOW CAN I ADAPT MYSELF
AND SURVIVE
AS AN INDIVIDUAL?

15. INTELLIGENT
LEARNING
!

16. AND HOW DOES
INTELLIGENT LEARNING
WORK?

17. #1: GET AN ADAPTIVE MINDSET
#2: ADAPT QUICKER while
#3:FAILING LESS

18. MISSION:

19. CORPORATE
UNIVERSITY=
Serves
the strategic goals
of the corporation

20. CORPORATE
UNIVERSITY
(but don’t think
campus and ivy)

21. MISSION:
(The sub text)

22. “Teach individuals,
businesses and the Group
as such to re-invent
themselves continuously”
Koos Bekker, CEO Naspers & MIH

23. 3
KINDS OF ADAPTIVE
CAPABILITIES

24. ONE:
UNIVERSAL
SKILLS

25. TWO:
PERIOD
SKILLS

26. In 1950 few women had driver’s licenses,
by 1960 you were dead in the job market
without one.

27. What’s next
?

28. NOBODY KNOWS!

29. HOW TO
PREPARE?

30. Be on the cross
roads of technology
and the liberal arts!

32. We will offer you the
opportunity to go and stand
at the intersection.
(Watch this space!)

33. THREE:
INDUSTRY SPECIFIC
SKILLS

34. PRIORITIZING:
(The Eisenhower Matrix):
!!!
Important and urgent
Unimportant but urgent
!
Important but not urgent!
Unimportant and not urgent

35. It’s the “Important, but not
Urgent” that’s
strategically deadly.
They kill you in the long
run.

36. WRAP UP!

37. Only that which
serves...

38. REINVENTION!

39. I ADAPT,
THEREFORE I AM!