What is Autonomous Competitive Learning and Why Use It?
The meaning of earning a living has changed in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Businesspeople who are serious about taking care of their families need to change their thinking and practices immediately to increase their income, productivity, and value.
What’s at stake, especially if businesspeople fail to earn and save enough money, makes practicing autonomous competitive learning to produce and maintain competitive advantages worth taking seriously. The longer people delay learning how to increase their incomes the harder it becomes every day to recover.
What is autonomous competitive learning?
Autonomous competitive learning (ACL) is learning with intentions to compete successfully, win contests, earn a living, or produce greater competitive capabilities than competitors can. It is significantly different from academic learning, which focuses on producing an outcome to satisfy an authority seeking agreement with their teachings. It enables businesspeople to produce new outcomes in new competitive situations before or when needed rather than waiting for someone else to say what to learn and when to learn it.
ACL enables businesspeople to take action every day, all day, to increase their competitive capabilities whenever it’s necessary to fulfill their intentions. The moment they want to increase their value and incomes, they turn on their computers and start learning.
This changes everything for businesspeople and entire businesses. It increases the speed at which they can adapt to new, complex, and rapidly changing competitive situations, increasing their relative power in the marketplace. And, it changes how business owners, executives, and managers lead their organizations.
ACL produces a radically new degree of individual power and freedom for businesspeople to acquire strategic and competitive knowledge whenever needed. The more they and their employees practice how to learn autonomously and competitively throughout the day to increase their competitive advantages, the more quickly they can outcompete those who don’t.
Think of it this way, can your team outperform a competitor’s team that is learning and practicing every day to design a steady stream of new offers, practices, goods, or services?
To answer the question, look at the outcomes. After all, the truth about the value of learning is how well it enables you and your employees to compete to fulfill your financial, career and business intentions.
Increase Your Income, Productivity, and Value
The fundamental strategic purpose of autonomous competitive learning is to enable businesspeople to perform the following practices to produce competitive advantages and increase their income, productivity, and value.
- Communication
ACL enables businesspeople to communicate commitments, offers, strategies, requests, facts, announcements, interpretations, and explanations about descriptions, meanings, relevance, value, and purposes (DMRVP) that enable them to perform the following two capabilities.
- Coordination of action
ACL enables businesspeople to coordinate thought and action with commitments — promises, requests, declarations, assertions, assessments, offers, complaints, apologies, etc. — to enable the final capability; production and fulfillment of offers, practices, narratives, and strategies, or OPNS.
- Production of fresh, new, highly valued, and scarce OPNS
ACL enables businesspeople and entire business organizations to produce steady streams of fresh, new offers, practices, narratives, and strategies, including goods and services, that are used strategically to:
Build competitive Networks of Capabilities
Increase autonomies, or reduce limitations on their ability to think and act
Produce steady streams of accomplishments
Establish superior identities of trustworthiness, value, authority, leadership, and dignity
Build competitive business organizations
Anticipate future threats to avoid, obligations to fulfill, and opportunities to exploit
This article is based on the book Aji, an IR#4 Business Philosophy by Toby Hecht (pages 156-159). 4.7 stars on Amazon.
In Part 2, we’ll talk about how to use autonomous competitive learning to accumulate strategic knowledge and compete effectively for high incomes.
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Aji is a competitive fundamental strategy, or plan of action, businesspeople learn autonomously and use competitively to compete successfully in today’s hyper-competitive, global marketplace. It enables businesspeople to know what to learn, why to learn it, how to learn it, and how to use it effectively, strategically, and competitively every day, all day.
Within 100 days of learning how to practice autonomous competitive learning deliberately using Aji and aji.com, businesspeople notice their competitive capabilities begin to increase significantly.
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