Editor’s note: We like this manifesto from Tom Peters. it reads more like a list of things to do and ways of being if you want to succeed. A great read on both a personal and professional/organisational level.
Editor’s note: This article shouts out why L&D professionals need to be on top of developments in the cognitive sciences. Otherwise, how can we be sure what’s called out as being phoney is actually phoney?
Here are our curated tweets from the Chat2lrn Twitter chat on the learned helplessness of…
Editor’s note: This research analyses Twitter data to understand what drives behaviour on Twitter and in particular what really drives retweets, favorites, and replies.
Editor’s note: The UK Commission for Employment and Skills has published a report on future careers which identifies 40 jobs for the future. Interesting to see what they are and to think about where L&D fits in and how organisations can encourage and support people into these types of roles.
Editor’s note: A useful list of blogs to follow. This list becomes more useful if you load the RSS feed from each blog into an RSS reader such as Feedly. From there you can see the latest posts from all 50 blogs at a glance. You can also share to your networks at the tap of a button.
At the start of the week I gave a presentation with #lpi chairman Don Taylor…
Editor’s note: LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman shares his thinking on talent and engagement at a time when a career for life, or a lifetime of employment, is looking like a thing of the past. First 10 slides are great.
Editor’s note: A really good provocation here around what we mean by the sharing economy and its relationship with big finance and profits.
Editor’s note: Not just yet is the answer although there are some serious ethical issues to get grips with as technology becomes more intelligent.
Editor’s note: Another piece debunking learning styles and other approaches to learning that we see used in organisations. This article is aimed at teachers – these approaches to learning are alive and well in both schools and places of work.
Editor’s note: Fascinating data looking at how long employees tend to stay with an employer – cast your assumptions aside and see how the data can help with your approaches to recruitment and people development.
Editor’s note: Some great insights here on how to use hooks to get users interested in your digital products.
Editor’s note: David Kelly urges people to look at the snake oil merchants in their personal learning networks. Thought-provoking piece that raises some good points about who you are following online and why.
Editor’s note: What is the sharing economy exactly and what does it look like from a worker’s perspective and from the employer’s perspective. Some interesting thinking to chew over in these videos.