I’ve worked with 22 Fortune 500 companies in my career. As partners to these companies, we have one clear goal: to help their people reach their full potential. I’ve seen passionate clients who pour their souls into transforming people. They strategize like CEOs and design learning experiences like the Old Masters. I’ve also seen tired, …
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“No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.” – Peter Drucker In my late 20’s I was a consultant at KPMG. Early in my career, I focused internally on delivering training to our offices in South Africa. For three weeks every month, I was on the road …
“I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.” – Albert Einstein “I am inspired by curiosity. That is what drives me.” – Elon Musk From the theory of relativity to self-driving cars, most of history’s breakthrough discoveries have something in common: they are the result of curiosity. This impulse …
This post builds on my cornerstone piece on How Great Companies Become Ultimate Learning Machines. Go read that first to learn how I discovered our approach for reverse-engineering a healthy learning culture. In this post, we’re going to walk through that approach. If you follow the steps below, you will be able to start the learning …
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“Success is just a byproduct of learning, and learning is a byproduct of curiosity. Ultimately, if you are curious about something, you will be successful at it, and the more curious you are about it, the more successful you will be at it.” –Naval Ravikant On August 12, 2019, I received a text message that …
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Mike Kunkle’s new book (his first), The Building Blocks of Sales Enablement, brings a systems-thinking approach to sales enablement. Regular readers will know my love of systems thinking in organizational learning. The work of Peter Senge hugely inspires me (check out my summary of his seminal book, The Fifth Discipline). He calls systems thinking “the …
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“You’ve always had the power my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself.” – Glinda, The Good Witch, The Wizard of Oz. We believe everyone is born with potential. Potential to learn. Potential to grow. Potential to teach. Each of us, as individuals, is equipped to help others reach that potential. When we …
Former president of the Czech Republic, Václav Havel, uttered these words in an address to a joint session of the United States Congress in 1994. They could easily be applied to the nature of work, today. The reason I bring up a rather obscure reference such as Havel in an article about the nature of …
This is part 4 in a 4-part series exploring the future of learning and development inside companies. Click here to read part 1, part 2 and part 3. Your company already has a learning culture whether you’ve thought about it or not. The way forward, therefore, won’t require you to create something out of nothing. …
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This is part 3 in a 4-part series painting a picture of the future of learning and development inside companies. Click here to read part 1 and part 2. We have established in this series that the expectations of the role of the learning and development professional have exceeded the importance given to it in …
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