The Link Between Leadership, Learning & Organizational Performance
Víctor García-Morales, Francisco Lloréns-Montes and Antonio Verdú-Jover published a paper in the British Journal of Management (December, 2008, Vol. 19 Issue 4) entitled, “The Effects...Dan's Related...
View Article3D GameLab Could Be The Future of Learning
There is something fascinating going on at Boise State University and specifically the Department of Educational Technology. Let me introduce you to 3D GameLab, arguably an...Dan's Related Posts:ABC –...
View ArticleThe edX, Udacity and Coursera Showdown
The higher education online learning gloves are now officially off. Let’s first recap the dizzying pace of change, announcements and launches that have occurred since...Dan's Related Posts:Udacity...
View ArticleShouldn’t We Just Best Buy Corporate Learning
Best Buy, a renown electronics retailer perhaps better known for its khaki pants and blue shirt dress code, could be viewed analagously with that of an evolved corporate learning...Dan's Related...
View ArticleFive Uses for Virtual Worlds in the Workplace
For the past two and half years at my real job as the head of learning and collaboration, we’ve been early adopters of a virtual...Dan's Related Posts:Virtual Worlds in an Organization are not a Time...
View ArticleMicro-blogging can help build your organisational culture
“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” Henry Ford In the corporate world where deadlines are rampant, constant innovation is...Dan's Related Posts:#Top #5...
View ArticleMy Views on Learnist, the latest ‘social learning’ venture
There are those who can’t avoid the temptation of beer, salt and sugary snacks at night and there are people like me who treat new...Dan's Related Posts:Social Media is not Social LearningQuora:...
View ArticleAn Infographic Depicting Learning & Collaboration in Action
Some of you know I actually have a ‘real job’ where each and every day I get to work with great people and turn ideas...Dan's Related Posts:After Five Years In My Role We’re Hiring My Replacement. Are...
View ArticleIt’s Time to Revolutionize Corporate Learning
I spend a lot of time thinking, writing, speaking and working in my own personal and professional venn diagram of: leadership development; social collaborative tools;...Dan's Related Posts:Rethinking...
View ArticleLet’s N-Screen the Classroom
I used to be one of those educators. There was a time when I wanted singular focus — an unadulterated fixation on my scintillating sermon...Dan's Related Posts:“Since the way we run universities now is...
View ArticleWould You Send Your 6-Year Old to an MBA Program?
I’m not entirely certain what to make of this. I got wind of a news report from Channel NewsAsia entitled, “MBA for Children” where three...Dan's Related Posts:The Star Wars Mentoring ProgramWhat I...
View ArticleLearning by Osmosis
I liken learning in an organization to osmosis. At least I think it should be like osmosis. The Oxford definition of osmosis can help us:...Dan's Related Posts:Dear C-Suite: We Don’t Do Training...
View ArticlePervasive Learning Graphic from Flat Army
If you’ve read Flat Army, you know there are five key models that make up a Flat Army leader and a Flat Army organization. If...Dan's Related Posts:Flat Army: Chapter 9 OverviewConnected Leader...
View ArticleThe Hierarchy of Education
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...Dan's Related Posts:“Since the way we...
View ArticleDear C-Suite: We Don’t Do Training Anymore
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...Dan's Related Posts:Budgeting for Learning 2.0: It’s Not That...
View ArticleQ&A on the Future of Social, Mobile and eLearning
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...Dan's Related Posts:Employee Access to Social Media in...
View ArticleRethinking Approaches to Corporate Learning
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...Dan's Related Posts:Learning With...
View ArticleThe Write MOOC Stuff
A few years ago, I had the chance to ask Daniel Pink — author of the books Drive and To Sell is Human — if...Dan's Related Posts:Our Three Young Children Blog … Here’s WhyLessons Learned From a First...
View ArticleDocking Employee Pay to Improve Their Skills is Dubious if not Dumb
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...Dan's Related Posts:My Definition of Work and an Update on Book TwoAlarming...
View ArticleI Learned A Lot At My First-Ever F***Up Nights
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...Dan's Related Posts:16 Months of Social Learning Platform...
View ArticleIf You Stop Learning You Lose The Chance To Be Entrepreneurial
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...Dan's Related Posts:A Few Easy Steps For Entrepreneurs...
View ArticleNo Carrie Fisher, Don’t Rest In Peace
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...Dan's Related Posts:In Progress Trump Presidency Lesson...
View ArticleMy Augusta Horribilis
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’...Dan's Related Posts:Please Don’t Let There Be Anonymity After...
View ArticleAnalyzing The Starbucks Training Plan Devoted To Racial-Bias
You're reading fresh content from Dan Pontefract at Brave New Org: In late May, Starbucks closed 8,000 stores across the United States for racial-bias training. It involved nearly 175,000 employees....
View ArticleEmployees Have Become So Busy They Have Given Up On Learning
You're reading fresh content from Dan Pontefract at Brave New Org: In today’s organization, speed has become a weapon against learning. Time to market, time to innovate, and time to exploit are now...
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