“how fast do you learn?”

Skills Obsolescence Hits Everyone

You will have to take this seriously.

How do you do it?

Software engineering

New tools like Ruby, Python, Scala, R, and Hadoop didn’t even exist five years ago.

If you are a Cobol or Java programmer, you have to keep up or you’ll suddenly find someone right out of college applying for your job.

Remember the “data processing” professionals from my days at IBM?

While many of them were fantastic software engineers, they feel like dinosaurs today.

Marketing

Today if you don’t know Salesforce, Marketo, Hubspot, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Analytics, Pinterest, and Facebook you really don’t know how to market your company any more…