Insights

Tuesday 7am

Out for a run as usual.  This morning it starts to rain after about 10 seconds.  Cold, slow rain into a whipped up squally day. To be honest it is not a lot of fun until the body warms up and the heat generated balances the heat lost.  As I run past people huddled up
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The iPod of 1905

I always wondered where my love of all things new and gadgety came from.  Certainly not my father who resisted 625 line televsion until they switched off the signal and refused to have  a radio in his car as ‘it’s just something else to go wrong’. But then I came across an old Phonograph recording
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Think Different Events

My latest link is to Martin Jack’s blog.  Jacky I have known for nigh on 20 years. He has set up his own small business to run conferences and events and he is brilliant at it.  You can check out the blog here.   It is the tale of a man tormented beyond endurance by the
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So Near So Far Away

I ran a webinar using the Elluminate desktop for Lingos yesterday. Lingos is an excellent ‘not for profit’ that stands for Learning in International NGOs. There were up to 50 participants from Egypt, Bolivia, mostly US, India and even one other from the UK.  Thanks Mark. The cost of flying them all together for a
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2007 Corporate Learning Factbook

Bersin and Associates have just published the 2007 Corporate Learning Factbook.  You can read a summary here. Amongst the information collected are some very useful metrics on average spend per learner, up to $1,273 across all industries but running from $2,763 per learner in the  technology sectors to as low as $519 per learner in
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Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesday is always a sober day in the Christian calendar and a opportunity to reflect upon the words on the imposition of ashes:  "Remember that you are dust, and to dust your shall return." Moby put it slightly more prosaically when he told us: "We are all made of stars"   
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Ten Years After

Tom Peters was banging on in 1997, and possibly long before then, about the need to spend 3% of gross revenue on training and development. ‘Treat it like R and D’ he said. Now ten years on a survery byPDI of over 1,500 companies in 8 countries worldwide– The Right Stuff- has revealed that out
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Influence and Imitation

I get obsessed by songs. When I get one into my head I have to play it again and again until it resumes normal proportions in my consciousness. This can take days or weeks. My latest amoureuse is Sweet Jane by the Cowboy Junkies.  It has already been days and no sign of getting over
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Grief and Love

On the 9/11 memorial in St Thomas’ Anglican Cathedral on 5th Ave and 53rd Street, there is a quote from the Queen:  "Grief is the price we pay for love. " I found that very moving. Surprisingly it is not mentioned in the guided tour of the church on the website.
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Philadelphia

Benjamin Franklin, scientist, inventor, politician, philosopher and postman is probably Philadelphia’s most illustrious son.  He signed both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and had a successful life as a printer and general good egg about town before the war of independence and actually lived in London for 10 years as the Colony of
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