Management guru Peter Drucker noted that companies attracting the best knowledge workers will “secure the single biggest factor for competitive advantage.” We and other forward-looking companies put a lot of effort into hiring such people. What are we looking for?
Read the post ‘Our Googley Advice to students: Major in Learning’ here.
Malcolm Clarkson was an influential figure in the world of education publishing where he single-handedly set up his own publishing house and created a long list which was the envy of long-established houses. For 25 years he battled with fortitude and courage against Parkinson’s disease, always retaining his sense of humour and mental agility.
Read the full story in The Times here.
See the video at The New Yorker.(Link snagged from Guy Kawasaki’s blog here.)
Read his article (May 2000) ‘The New-Boy Network’ here.
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Tom Kuhlmann has another great post on The Rapid E-Learning Blog. All of us have experienced this problem, very often when working with SMEs. Everybody know that they should stick to content which is need-to-know, but the principle is rarely followed.
I have seen one BPO in India using strictly need-to-know content for their voice and accent training with great results, so it actually does work.
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