Ever read a book and found as little as a few weeks later that you can barely remember a single key idea from the book? Or attended a conference and struggled to remember the following year whether you attended it or not – much less whether you actually learned anything? Or led your organization through […]
The Strategy-Learning Loop
In simplest terms, strategy is the means by which we travel from a current state to a future desired state. The realization of strategy is, by necessity, a learning journey. Strategy presupposes that there are things we know, but also that there is a great deal we do not know. It gives us a framework […]
5 Key Focus Areas for Enhancing Life and Learning
I have found the following to emerge again and again as areas of life and learning that need continual attention and reinforcement for the dedicated lifelong learner. They are areas I continually work on myself. To be clear, these are indirect strategies – they don’t have to do with the content of your learning or with […]
The Dangerous Middle
I’ve been thinking about “the middle” lately. Not the TV show – though I do enjoy that on the occasions I am able to watch it – but rather that average space in which too many organizations tend to find themselves. A place where it is very difficult to truly stand out and have an […]
What is the Learning Economy?
Any definition of learning economy has to start with the individual terms: Learning Here’s how I define it: the lifelong process of transforming information and experience into knowledge, skills, behaviors, and attitudes. (from A Definition of Learning) I wrote this years ago and it has held up. If I were to modify it at all, […]
Educational Content Marketing with the Learning Revolutionary’s Toolbox
I’ve suggested before that succeeding with content marketing is not necessarily easy – especially as more and more people jump on the bandwagon. One key to making it work is to create truly useful content, and for my money, that usually means educational content. To help give you a leg up on doing just that, […]