Cognitive learning often has no place at work

If all you do all day is check boxes and answer the KPI bell, your thinking muscles atrophy. And then we expect those people to make the right political decisions, or want to join the right groups, or know how to structure a mortgage? Dominoes.

Cognitive learning basically means the same thing as "thinking," and thinking is pretty much dead in the river at most companies. Not surprising, though: you get promoted at companies based on two factors, primarily. One is kissing the right ass or being close to the existing power core. The second factor is execution, and by that I mean a relentless, a…