"What is essential is invisible." There's a lot of talk going on these days about how businesses need to embrace their social nature and intangible elements in order to compete [see Enterprise 2.0, Social Business Design, etc.]. The reason ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

What typically happens when someone has a question about how something works in an organization?  Most people don't wait for the next scheduled training class.  They ask someone they ...

I had an opportunity today to have the dedicated ears of 18 mid-level managers at a large organization where we are just at the launch phase of creating a community of practice.  This is a group of sales people in ...

I just read a great article in Fortune magazine about Social Network Analysis (SNA) and the benefits it can yield in an organization. To me this is further fodder on what have been relatively obscure tools coming more into the ...

Customers and influencers today are quickly becoming accustomed to connecting with their favorite brands, suppliers, vendors and anyone else they interact with commercially as opposed to being just the receiver of messages as they were only a few years ago. The ...