This has been a common conversation for me over the last 5 years or so... Most People: What is it that you do again? Me: I help companies operate and compete in a knowledge-based economy. Most People: Huh? Me: I work with companies on ...

MIT Sloan Management Review has rebuilt their site using a Wordpress platform and is integrating two blogs within it - one of them focused on innovation.  This is a ...

Ever feel like this in training?  I've been noodling on this analogy for months - I need some data to really verify the point but the premise is there... At ...

94% of human resources professionals do not feel their personnel are adequately prepared to meet their companies’ future goals according to the State of the Global Talent Nation.  That number was 86% in 2007 and 64% in 2006...so it's moving ...

Leading today is like no other time. Teams are dispersed globally, hyper-connected, and what they need from their leaders has changed. Too often traditional leadership development programs rely on an approach that does not produce change while delivering ...

Corporate University Xchange has released a video interview of two OD practitioners from Health Net talking about their experience implementing a talent management system and process.  The video is brief and high-level but shows an inside look at some of ...

LCB is at it again this month with another great big question - or is it a great, big question?  And...has it been a month already??? The question for March is:  What would you do to support new managers?...

I recently returned from my honeymoon in New Zealand.  Everywhere we went the toilets I encountered had two buttons on the top of them to instigate flushing instead of the one lever I am accustomed to seeing in the USA.  The two ...

I just realized that I tend to favor topics around learning in my posts when in my role I focus just as much on development.  For us at Orbital RPM we see learning and development as related but distinct.  Development ...

I have just returned to my room after the first day of the CLO Academy in Lansdowne, VA.  The sessions started at 5pm so I've only seen a glimpse of what we're we will be experiencing but so ...