Learning Agility Requires Proper Action Identification

摘要

As stated in the focal article, learning agility refers to "the ability to come up to speed quickly in one's understanding of a situ-ation, and move across ideas flexibly in service of learning both within and across experiences" (DeRue, Ashford, & Myers, 2012). A critical element of learning agility, then, is making connections between expe-riences, especially experiences that occur in seemingly distinct and unrelated situations. DeRue et al. highlight three cognitive pro-cesses as being important for making such connections: cognitive simulations, coun-terfactual thinking, and pattern recognition. Together, these three processes capture, respectively, individuals' abilities to imag-ine possible future situations, consider how past situations may have differed, and to "connect the dots" between past and future situations.