Reading Andy Grove’s book High Output Management (great summary here), I came across some excellent thoughts on training, and especially his point that training is one of the highest leverage activities a manager can perform.
Leverage,…
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I waited nervously as we went around the room to introduce ourselves. We were sitting around a large conference table. A room full of founders, CEOs, entrepreneurs. High achievers. I don’t know why I was nervous. I am the founder of two companies.…
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"Me against my brothers; my brothers and me against my cousins; my cousins, my brothers, and me against strangers.” - Bedouin proverb.
South Africa is presently in the grip of a spate of violent attacks. Xenophobia has claimed the lives of…
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What happened next made no sense.
It was Test match 3 of 5 in a series that decides the oldest rivalry in cricket, England vs Australia.
England were 0-1 down. Defeat would make it 0-2, with two to play. Needing to win the series…
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As the owner of a business creating learning events for individuals and companies, I’m often asked, “How do I teach my people (employees/customers) this topic?”
If you’re responsible for the education of others you need to be thinking…
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To win the hearts and minds of your people is to mobilize your greatest asset, which can help you overcome other competitive disadvantages you may have.
In a previous post I shared a crucial step in the Design phase of our learning methodology…
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I wrote about the OODA Loop and how we can improve L&D by adopting a continuous cycle of Observe, Orient, Decide and Act to extract knowledge that already exists in the organization and make it constantly available to people. This is the…
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Our education system is broken in that we are still teaching for rote memorization. This is crazy in the age of Google and Wikipedia.
Today I want to introduce a simple way to start changing this.
Have you ever heard of the OODA…
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Making knowledge workers productive requires changes in attitude, not only on the part of the individual knowledge worker, but on the part of the whole organization.
There are three more guidelines that Peter Drucker shared to broaden the…
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In my last blog post, I introduced the ideas of Peter Drucker, that I came across in a compilation of his work.
One of the entries addressed his insight into knowledge workers as mobile assets.
I share my thoughts in this short video.…
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Training is the highest leverage thing you can do
How to channel your energy for positive outcomes
South Africa’s Scapegoat Problem
5 Things we can learn from cricket
How do I teach my people this?
Why embedding corporate culture in training is so important
What boats, tanks and bicycles teach you about OODA
The OODA Loop: a simple way to improve L&D
3 steps to connect your employees to the knowledge that's already there
What if we don’t train them... and they stay?