ABSTRACT
This chapter conceptualizes keeping up with digital technologies as an accelerated learning practice. Accelerated learning, or learning efficiency, has individual beliefs/attitudes/traits levers that can be influenced, and it has learning strategies/practices/habits levers that can be adopted/learned. The chapter unpacks each of the lever types and explains how they interact together to drive the accelerated learning/learning efficiency necessary to keep up with digital technology advancements. It discusses a list of commonly used strategies and practices from both academic research and from practitioners. Managers’ appreciation of the true challenge of keeping up with digital technologies refers to how accurately they understand and take seriously the rate of change in digital technologies and the resultant disruption threats. Hospitality and leisure managers can leverage these three research findings to enhance their motivation and that of their direct reports to keep up with digital technologies and to be resilient in the face of setbacks or overwhelm.
