My company’s identity and my own were twisted into a toddler’s knot for too long. I had mushed them together so much that I couldn’t tell them apart, like a brown ball of kids putty. Joy, for me, comes from a relentless (sometimes overly) intellectual pursuit of the elusive Truth (with a capital T, yeah, […]

In a world of economic and geopolitical confusion, the key to sustained growth lies in strategies that span centuries, not just fiscal quarters. The question that inevitably emerges is how to transform an organization into a ‘Living Company,’ one that perpetually evolves, learns, and thrives. The concept of the ‘Living Company,’ as established by Arie

How do you manage people in the age of (AI)quarius? Already with a terrible pun. I bet the AI wouldn’t be so bold! ChatGPT! I challenge you! Um, excuse me AI! You can insult my writing but you can’t insult my puns! It would not be so bold to say that humanity is sitting on

Too many companies today believe they can predict and plan for the future. Their entire business model, down to how they train their people, is predicated on this false sense of certainty. But we can’t predict tomorrow’s market. We can only respond with the best answer we have when tomorrow comes. The single most powerful

Who doesn’t love a good origin story? Let me tell you my vocational one. I met learning design by accident. I was straight out of university, the ink barely dried on my degree, when I walked into my first grown-up job. The idea of learning design, instructional design, eLearning – well, those things weren’t around

What’s the difference between an Arts degree and a pizza? A pizza can feed a family of four. I’m not what you would call a risk taker by any means but when I was in my last year of grade school I did something a little risky. I enrolled in a degree in the performing

Questions enable us to organize our thinking around what we don’t know. As a child, I remember always having a million questions in mind at any moment. Unfortunately for the adults around me, providing an answer would often lead to a new string of questions, and them realizing that my stamina to keep asking had

The gears started turning in my head the instant Andrew Barry mentioned the concept of Total Enablement to me. It resonated right away because I’m a soccer player, and I always have been. …What? What does that have to do with enablement? Let’s back up a bit before I explain. The Beautiful Game Andrew and