Rather than Homo Sapiens or Homo Faber, we are Homo Artes. Mirroring, application, reflection is how we develop new skills. These are built into TeamFit.

The Design Thinking group on LinkedIn has almost 100,000 members. New members are invited to take a short survey. Here are the results for August 2017.

We all have more skills than we can use at any one time. TeamFit let's you signal if a skill is core to your work, targeted to improve or downgraded.

What motivates us to develop new skills and to apply them at work? Fear and greed come to mind, as does social pressure, but the most important thing is hope.

Many large or rapidly growing companies have a person responsible for talent acquisition. Aging workforces, changing skill requirements, competition for talent are all driving interest in talent acquisition. But is talent acquisition the most important way to build capabilities? That seems unlikely.