Insights

Advice to CLOs

I am speaking in Brazil in September at Mindquest’s Leaders Development 2008 conference in Sao Paulo. The website includes a fascinating biography of me in Portugese but more interestingly a 6 minute video snippet from an interview I gave when I was last in Latin America on metrics and learning. It is available here.
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Google Chrome

Google has announced that it is launching its own Browser tomorrow for Windows users, and  Mac/Linux versions soon after. It will be called Google Chrome.  I have not seen the Browser yet but I like what I am hearing from Google: ‘What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform
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Where does it all go wrong?

I found two little snippets of information in the Saturday Age yesterday which I will share with you.  Both alarming in their own quiet way. ONE:  Proportion of surveyed Australian workers who say :                                                                 their boss is completely ineffective:  58% TWO: Proportion of US workers who feel they are more productive:                                                                   when working
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Making a Difference

Lucy Kellaway the Financial Times journalist is a bit of a media superstar.  She has her weekly podcast; her FT column; and BBC World Service slot amongst others. Today she was talking on the BBC about why people demand meaning in their work, and why they feel the need to ‘make a difference’. She is
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Learning at the Olympics

I have been watching the Olympics on the excerable Channel 7 in Australia. See some of the complaints here. So jingoistic is it, that if the heat does not include an Australian, the channel cuts to an Ad break (of which there are many) so you never find out who was in the heat as
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Cultural Cringe

Australia’s Kath and Kim successfully transitioned to UK TV and probably a large number of other countries.  In the US, however, they prefer their sitcoms home grown.  So in October NBC launches the US version called:  Kath and Kim (unsurprisingly).  You can check out the previews here.  Not much to go on but one of
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iPhone

I am slightly loathe to add to the volumes that have been written on the iPhone but I was reflecting today on why I like the beast so much, and that has a lot to do wiht how I use it. I txt every day; use the internet a lot (83 mgbt download in the
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The Economist Debates

The Economist Debates are here again.  The latest is:  Is there an upside to the present increase in world food prices? The initial vote is quite close but the ‘ayes’ have it.  It made me look again at past debates and I found my little comment on the technology in education one.  I reproduce it
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I Need Serious Help to Slim Down

McKinsey’s Newletter!  I have hundreds of them.  Yet as soon as the delete button hovers over the list, I sopt something that could  be interesting so I keep them all!  And not just McKinsey’s, there are countless other newsletters and articles that have a great column or make a good point or introduce a new
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Keeping Up

Somebody pointed out that my Skype id listed me currently ‘at Learn X’.  I checked and was horrified to find that she was right! Lots of water has flowed under the bridge since Learn X and I had forgotten to change the tag. And then I realised how many things have to be changed or
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