What’s the world need?

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On the end of my first day with the Altimeter Group team I heard what feels like the perfect quotation to express how I feel: alive. Don’t ask what the world needs.  Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it.  Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. — Howard [...] Read more →

The Next New Thing

Today I take off on an exciting journey, to join the thought leaders and star analysts at Altimeter Group, as a partner focused on enterprise 2.0, collaborative culture, and how organizations can learn nonstop. As writing my third book, The New Social Learning, drew to a close this spring, I knew it was time to [...] Read more →

Create a Learning Culture

Public Affairs

Companies that value learning outperform those that don’t. A study by independent research firm McBassi & Company shows that it pays to invest in people-focused practices including building learning capacity, knowledge accessibility, and professional development. Institutions that demonstrate the greatest commitment to their human capital seem to enjoy the greatest financial rewards. Begin by asking [...] Read more →

A Seeing/Believing Gap

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What you see may be only a fraction of what’s there. To learn more, look beyond what you expect. [...] Read more →

Nobody can…

You can’t manage knowledge. Nobody can. What you can do is to manage the environment in which knowledge can be created, discovered, captured, shared, distilled, validated, transferred, adopted, adapted and applied. — Chris Collison and Geoff Parcell, Learning to Fly (via Sahana Chattopadhyay @sahana2082) [...] Read more →