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It\u2019s our first birthday as a podcast! Though actually just over a full circle round the Sun, we\u2019re still celebrating\u2026 yup, an amazing 16 months of podcasting, with this as our 50th episode\u2014landmarks accompanied, we\u2019re amazed to say, 20,000 downloads. And the way we\u2019re doing that isn\u2019t so much with cake and candles, awesome as those things are, but a new format for \u2018Learning Is The New Working\u2019 we\u2019re calling \u2018Season Eight.\u2019 With an overall theme of \u2018Connecting The Dots,\u2019 our aim in this new collection of episodes is to move away from our interview format to a more \u2018feature\u2019 audio style, where we pull together sound clips and insights gained from all of our conversations and research in short chunks we will lay out our manifesto for what L&D needs to do to catch up with The Fourth Industrial Revolution, natch). In this scene setter we review where we are, starting with that great quote we reference from President Obama\u2019s Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel back in 2009\u2014that you should never let a serious crisis go to waste as, \u201cit\u2019s an opportunity to do things that you did not think you could do before.\u201d We then fast forward to remind ourselves about when Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told us about the Future of Work arriving, a great observation from Kevin Oakes of i4CP, who we met back in Season Six, as well as: an audio snapshot of me asking CLOs if they feel they\u2019re confident they\u2019re adding value back in February in London; reminding ourselves what some recent podcast guests like E&Y's Mary Slaughter and Cargill's Julie Dervin have been saying about the crisis; a fascinating look back into when the robots started coming\u2026 and it\u2019s been longer than you think! and much more.