Learning & Development

Can any of your work on sustainable competitive advantage for nations and companies be usefully applied to individuals’ career?  MP: When you’re building a career, you’re building a skill base, a knowledge base, and your human capital. You want to expose yourself to the best ideas and to the best training and to the best experiences you can have. At …

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Various authors have defined communication. In his own definition, John M.P. Fiffner saw communication as a galaxy of connotation, each of which is valuable and useful for its particular context. It is indeed common that the mere mention of world communication conjures pictures of the letters, telegram, radio, cables, telephone, TV etc. in the mind of the people in the …

There are all sorts of reasons to get an education. It gives you perspective on the world, it makes you a complete person, and of course most importantly of all, it helps you build a career. Unfortunately this link between education and jobs seems to be breaking down. McKinsey just published a groundbreaking […] Learning and Development …

Many skilled jobs require a considerable amount of learning while doing, but learning requirements have reached unrealistic levels in many roles and work situations today. Learning and Development Read the complete article

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As businesses expand and naturally organize themselves into teams, it can be easy for one side to lose site of the other, but clever knowledge management can help to prevent these so-called silos from Learning and Development Read the complete article

Instead of being mere money-generating machines, they combine financial and social logic to build enduring success. Learning and Development Read the complete article

How do you take HR from being a reactive, transactional business process, to a strategic, proactive service delivering value to the organization? This was one of several interesting threads that came out of the Connected Enterprise 2011 conference held in Scottsdale this past weekend by analyst firm, Constellation Research Group. […] Learning and Development Read the …

Learn how to manage time through organization, prioritizing, and scheduling your day from Entrepreneur. Learning and Development Read the complete article