“This is business.” — Vito Corleone, The Godfather
Business is changing, and the learning function must change along with it.
Rigid, industrial-age corporations are not keeping up with the pace of change. Customer Spring, Shareholder Spring, and Worker Spring may break out any day. Everyone’s mad as hell. They won’t take it any more. Read more →
Business is Falling Behind
Business organizations are lagging reality. The 21st century is radically different from what came before and yet most businesses act as if nothing has changed.
Half of the adult population of the United States uses social media, up from 5% a scant six years. 750 million people converse on Facebook. A couple of hundred of us were blogging a dozen years ago; today 160 million people blog. Yet most corporations are reluctant to “take the risk” on social media. Read more →
More recently at the Internet Time Alliance, we’ve been focusing not on training and learning but on ideas around “working smarter.” Jay Cross, one of my colleagues in the Internet Time Alliance, is well known for his early work and books on informal learning. Jay describes working smarter as being the key to sustainability and continuous improvement, and to productivity. Working smarter requires learning in new ways. Read more →
Higher ground
I don’t talk much about training or learning these days.
Just because you train people doesn’t mean they learn.
Learning is higher ground than training, but learning is not enough to make sure the job gets done. Read more →
In the world of business, the era of networks is crowding out the Industrial Age. Network connections are replacing rigidity with flexibility, penetrating internal boundaries and silos and obliterating the walls that have separated businesses from their customers. Read more →
