Insights

Why so Sentimental?

My gym closed last week. No big deal, it is part of the redevelopment of London Bridge in the light of the arrival of the Shard and the creation of a bogus new quartier ‘The London Bridge Quarter’.  The station itself will be transformed in a few years and my gym just got in the
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What’s Innovation got to do with learning?

Paper prepared for the Chatities Conference 15th September 2010 Innovation and creativity are going to be at the heart of many learning and development conversations over the next year.  I can almost guarantee it.  The current financial crisis has prompted organisations in the public, private and non-governmental sectors to be thinking hard about how they
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Thoughts on West Ham’s Relegation

First published in Training Zone Any failure is hard to bear but one where the team finished bottom of the table and were the first to be relegated is doubly hard. No glorious fight to the finish or plucky rally but an ignominious downright straight up failure.  No saving graces really and not much to
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In Memory of Douglas Adams

Today is the tenth anniversary of his death and this quote from a 1999 article sums up the guy for me:  on the ball, challenging and very funny. “I suppose earlier generations had to sit through all this huffing and puffing with the invention of television, the phone, cinema, radio, the car, the bicycle, printing,
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Sydney July 7th 2011

Check out this masterclass I am running in Sydney called: How to Create a Learning Explosion
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Innovative Performance Support by Bob Mosher and Conrad Gottfredson

  I am just finishing Bob Mosher and Conrad Gottfredson’s latest book called:  Innovative Performance Support and I have enjoyed it. It has two really powerful virtues.  The first is that is is easy to read and more importantly, perhaps, it comes at a really important juncture in the trajectory of corporate learning.  It is
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Learning from the Shard

The Shard of Glass has been topped out.  Still about 9 floors to go above the concrete core but the heart of the building is now as high as it will go.  The Shard will end up as the tallest building in the EU and the 15th tallest in the world when it is finished
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Going Mobile

Do you remember when ‘e learning’ was a dynamically sophisticated term that described something radically new in the field of learning and development? I have to admit to being there at its conception, birth and early childhood.  It feels a long time ago.     The term was used to describe learning that was delivered on
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First Post of 2011: Swimming in the Rain

There is something special about swimming in the rain.  Once you are in, the water takes on  a much more protective role than in the dry.  Somehow being under the water feels very safe and protected. You only get battered by the raindrops when you surface and take a breath. Once you have finished swimming,
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IPads Just for CEOs???

Bob Sutton’s blog Work Matters offers a few observations on the iPad.  He is not impressed, but acknowledges that CEOs -as a group- seem to love them. And what that boils down to is the long battery life and the big screen to do email and web browse.  He concludes that these people spend a
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