I was having a conversation with someone yesterday afternoon about how the number of software vendors offering wikis, blogs, discussions boards, rapid elearning, etc. was enormous and that there would ...

July 22nd, 2008
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CLO Media posted a recent executive briefing where they provide four things that CEOs and Chief Learning Officers [CLOs] should be considering when operating their business.  I agree with ...

July 22nd, 2008
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It's our combined thoughts that bring us great things. What a great quote, eh? This came straight from my wife after a couple years of explaining to her what I do for ...

July 21st, 2008
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Over the last few years the nationwide real estate market enjoyed tremendous growth followed by a bursting bubble to level-set prices.  I see the same trend a comin' in the learning and development field... Traditional formal ...

June 30th, 2008
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Way back in my undergrad psychology classes we read much about the classic debate over nature vs. nurture in regard to human development. The 'nature' camp believed that we are who we are from birth - our genes (nature) ...

April 7th, 2008
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I’ve been absent from the monthly Big Questions over at the Learning Circuits blog - mainly due to us getting our own new site up and populated. I almost rang in on February but couldn’t pull it together…even with the ...

March 8th, 2008
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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 ...

February 5th, 2008
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My wife is in sales and I've been watching helplessly for the last week or so as she writes/compiles a massive proposal for a potential client.  She's worked until 5am more than once and is counting on doing it again ...

January 28th, 2008
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Of all of the various groups in which you're involved, be they social, professional, religious or otherwise, have you noticed that there is typically a core group of people that keep the momentum of the group?  That's precisely what Tony Burgess ...

January 27th, 2008
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Check out a real-time Digg Swarm.  This is a fascinating view of the chaotic rhythm of a crowd seeking the information it wants.  It's messy, it's unpredictable and it's reality.  And it's precisely the reason that formal training programs account for ...

January 25th, 2008
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