For the individual lifelong learner, one of the greatest opportunities of our age is the sheer volume of content we now have access to through the Internet. If we want to expand our knowledge on any topic, simply pulling out our smart phones and doing a quick Google search will lead us to a wealth […]
Strategy
The Why, Why, Why, Why Business Success Predictor
Why do you do what you do? Why would anyone believe you can do a great job at it? Why should anyone care? Why would anyone pay you for it? Quick: Can you answer all of the above in a brief but memorable way? If you can use a story, or a picture, all the […]
Just Do it (But Strategically)
A recent posting on Brand Autopsy featured the following quote from Jeffrey Pfeffer’s What Were They Thinking?: Unconventional Wisdom About Management: Instead of sitting in meetings and spending time preparing fancy PowerPoint presentations, develop your strategy adaptively, by using your company’s best thinking at the time, learning from experience, and then trying again, using what […]
The 7 Measures and Online Learning
I’ve been a fan of Jim Collin’s Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t for some time and was excited last year to see the publication of 7 Measures of Success: What Remarkable Associations Do That Others Don’t, a book that applies the Good to Great lens to associations in […]
The Balanced Scorecard: A Framework for Learning
A couple of years back, feeling that performance at a learning technology company I was running at the time was declining, I brought in a firm call SUMMIT Performance Systems to help us take a look at our strategy and general operations. SUMMIT introduced us to the Balanced Scorecard approach to formulating, implementing, and measuring […]