Insights

West Ham United Football Club

It is the final weekend of the Premiership.  The champions have been decided and there is a bit of minor placemanship for the UEFA Cup final place but at that end of the table it is pretty much done and dusted.  Right at the bottom it is clear as two clubs:  Watford and Charlton are
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Learning Leaders Academy

Finally launched :  and raring to go.  Saratoga Springs NY in the Masie Centre from July 22nd – 25th July 2007. The programme will address the four key dimensions of Learning Leadership: Learning Leaders: Business Perspectives & SkillsLearning Leaders: Learning Vision & StrategiesLearning Leaders: Personal Competencies for LeadershipLearning Leaders: Organizational Change Leadership It will be
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7 Big Messages About Learning

Ian Smith runs Learning Unlimited in Scotland.  He has worked face to face with half the entire teaching force in Scotland and no one else can claim anything like that coverage, so he must know what he is talking about! I worked with him for quite a few years and he has built a good
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Roisin Donnelly.

Roisin Donnelly and I have never met but her profile "My Life in Media"; in yesterday’s Independent Media Weekly Review struck me in a couple of ways.  Roisin is corporate marketing director and head of marketing for Proctor and Gamble UK and Ireland.  She has always been in marketing since graduating from Glasgow University in
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Dawn Winder

Just put a long overdue link to Dawn’s site. Check it out lots of useful information. She is a real entrepreneur and has built her business around her ideas on self-presentation.  She is a great workshop facilitator and tutor in her area of expertise and deserves lots of recognition (and work).
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All Wrapped Up and Nowhere to Go

I am sitting amongst a mountain of boxes and bubble pack.  My house looks like a giant lego board with none of the bricks connected.  My life is wrapped up waiting for the container tomorrow and shipping to Australia.  When my ‘things’ go, that will be the last I see of them for 8 weeks
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Serious and Studiously Mobile

I Chaired Ron Edwards 2nd Seriously Mobile Conference which Reuters hosted last Friday. It was streamed out of Reuters to the world and, with only a couple of technical hitches we had a panel from the University of Central Florida joining us and we flew around the PA Consulting Island in Second Life guided by
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The Youth of Today!

I was running along a small canal down towards the Thames at Shadwell when I noticed a group of mixed race and mixed sex 12 year olds hanging around an overpass above me.  I saw one of the kids (in a Chelsea shirt incidentally) pick something up and then a stone wizzed past my head.
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Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm spoke at LMS 2007.  He is the author of the Tipping Point and Blink.  Both have sold millions of copies (he could not tell me the actual numbers apart from ‘loads’). In a fascinating talk, he reflected on decision making.  If we expect a justification of all decisions before we are able to make
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Scene at Gatwick

En route to Las Vegas for LMS 2007 which I have been co-hosting with Elliott Masie and Cushing Anderson.  At security in Gatwick Airport, South Terminal, if you really want to know.  In front of me is a very elderly couple who have been visiting one of their children.  Security insists they take their shoes
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