November 5, 2018
In today’s organization, speed has become a weapon against learning. Time to market, time to innovate, and time to exploit are now bullets in the gun. And that gun seems … Continue reading “Employees Have Become So Busy They Have Given Up On Learning”
June 9, 2018
In late May, Starbucks closed 8,000 stores across the United States for racial-bias training. It involved nearly 175,000 employees. Think about that for a moment. It is the equivalent of … Continue reading “Analyzing The Starbucks Training Plan Devoted To Racial-Bias”
August 30, 2017
I received a Facebook message today from a friend. The first few lines read as follows: “Hi Dan, I’m not seeing much of the ‘real’ you around, and I’m guessing … Continue reading “My Augusta Horribilis”
December 28, 2016
Like the rain in England and the heat in Tunisia, death is both unavoidable and inevitable. The rash of celebrity deaths in 2016 seems to have shaken the world. As … Continue reading “No Carrie Fisher, Don't Rest In Peace”
November 21, 2016
Over the course of his writing, rather cleverly, Peter Drucker found a way to coin our past, present and future into distinct societies. At its root, a “society” is a … Continue reading “If You Stop Learning You Lose The Chance To Be Entrepreneurial”
February 15, 2016
Don’t shoot the messenger! I didn’t make up the group name. In his book, The Secret of Staying in Love, author John Powell wrote, “The only real mistake is the … Continue reading “I Learned A Lot At My First-Ever F***Up Nights”
September 25, 2014
I read with disdain about IBM’s dubious plan to reduce the pay of some of its workers by 10 percent in order for them to improve their skills. Patrick Thibodeau … Continue reading “Docking Employee Pay to Improve Their Skills is Dubious if not Dumb”
September 22, 2014
A few years ago, I had the chance to ask Daniel Pink — author of the books Drive and To Sell is Human — if there were any secrets to … Continue reading “The Write MOOC Stuff”
August 27, 2014
Elana Varon of the SAP Center for Business Insight recently interviewed me with the topic and questions focusing on different approaches to corporate learning. The full report, entitled Why Companies Should … Continue reading “Rethinking Approaches to Corporate Learning”
May 23, 2014
I was asked to comment on a few questions related to eLearning, social learning, etc. for an upcoming publication. Here are the questions and my unedited responses: What does an … Continue reading “Q&A on the Future of Social, Mobile and eLearning”
November 4, 2013
In 2012, Peter Aceto, the President and CEO of ING DIRECT – a Canadian bank with 1.78 million customers and over $38 billion in assets – delivered a speech where … Continue reading “Dear C-Suite: We Don’t Do Training Anymore”
October 28, 2013
It’s my belief we are conditioned as children—through the hierarchy of a centuries-old schooling system—to believe the oldest person in the room (the teacher) is the smartest. That works only … Continue reading “The Hierarchy of Education”
