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The Learning Business Grand Slam
Learning Business Grand Slam Perhaps it’s because a bit of spring seems to be nipping through occasionally over the past week, but I’ve got baseball metaphors on my mind. I’m also deeply steeped in our...
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Transactions vs. Relationships
Transactions or Relationships – Which are at the heart of your learning business? “One and done. That’s the approach most of our education directors take.” This was the view shared with me by the vice...
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The Power of Why: A Simple Business Success Predictor
Why do you do what you do? Why would anyone believe you can do a great job at it? Why should anyone care? Why would anyone pay you for it? Quick: 1. Can you answer all of the above in a brief but...
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The Strategy-Learning Loop
In simplest terms, strategy is the means by which we travel from a current state to a future desired state. The realization of strategy is, by necessity, a learning journey. Strategy presupposes that...
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The Dangerous Middle
I’ve been thinking about “the middle” lately. Not the TV show – though I do enjoy that on the occasions I am able to watch it – but rather that average space in which too many organizations tend to...
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The Learning Revolution is …
We hear the word “learning” and our knee jerk, often unconscious reaction is to think “education.” But, in reality, learning is not primarily about education. Indeed, formal, teacher-led educational...
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Pursuing Learning Culture and Learning Ecosystem
The terms learning culture (or, alternatively, culture of learning) and learning ecosystem have been relatively trendy in the corporate learning and development world for many years, but our...
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How to Curate Lifelong Learning
For the individual lifelong learner, one of the greatest opportunities of our age is the sheer volume of content we now have access to through the Internet. If we want to expand our knowledge on any...
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Could Associations Replace College? (Take 2)
I first posed this question in a post published in 2014. At the time, I framed it as “not such a crazy question” given the growing criticism of higher education as well as the emergence of myriad...
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What is unlearning and what does it require?
I’ve defined learning before as “…the lifelong process of transforming information and experience into knowledge, skills, behaviors, and attitudes.” I stick by this definition, but I’ve also come to...
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Where Learning Leadership Is Needed Now
I like to revisit periodically the concept of “leading learning” to reflect on what it means. Our current context seems like a particularly important one for doing this. A significant part of...
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Inform. Perform. Transform. What do your educational offerings do?
There are three broad levels at which educational products and experiences deliver value: inform, perform, and transform.* An appreciation of them is essential not only for pricing, but for...
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Learning vs. Education
I too often read articles or hear people talk about “learning” when what they are clearly referring to is education. The two are not the same, and I believe that recognizing and appreciating the...
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Can we educate ourselves fast enough?
You have to wonder Predictions about how forces like artificial intelligence, automation, and robotics will impact the future of work – and by extension, the future of learning – vary widely, but it...
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Are you truly available to learn?
It’s easy, particularly for those of us who identify as lifelong learners, to assume that we will gravitate toward learning, that we will welcome learning opportunities as they come our way. But we...
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The Learning Revolution is …
[Updated June 18, 2018] We hear the word “learning” and our knee jerk, often unconscious reaction is to think “education.” But, in reality, learning is not primarily about education. Indeed, formal,...
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Exploring the Learning Revolution with WP Tonic
I recently had the chance to talk about the Learning Revolution with the folks at the WP Tonic podcast. They asked great questions, which resulted in what I feel was a really useful discussion – one...
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The Learning Business Grand Slam
Learning Business Grand Slam Perhaps it’s because a bit of spring seems to be nipping through occasionally over the past week, but I’ve got baseball metaphors on my mind. I’m also deeply steeped in our...
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Transactions vs. Relationships
Transactions or Relationships – Which are at the heart of your learning business? “One and done. That’s the approach most of our education directors take.” This was the view shared with me by the vice...
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The Future and Learning – Connecting the Dots
The learning landscape continues to evolve in very interesting ways. I’ve noticed lately, for example, that artificial intelligence (AI) seems to finally be getting significant traction. Enough so...
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