Real knowledge does not exist within us but between us, in our conversations is something I’ve felt for a long time. So with that, if we want to create more knowledge, we need to create more conversations. In principle it’s that easy. However the practice, although simple, is much harder to do. To create conversations we must understand […]
Over the past few years, blessed by rich experiences and conversation, my beliefs and practices started to change. I no longer saw organizational learning as something unique, I was seeing it as a part of a whole, working in synchronicity with all other elements of an organization. I have come to see learning as a
Several months ago I wrote the first post of this title. In it I shared how through continual conversation and examples I was able to help some key stakeholders stop calling everything training when it came to a performance solution. The idea being that change happens one conversation at a time and that maybe to
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Social media is often criticized for bringing out the ugliness of society. But isn’t that what we want!? What we need?! Racism, sexism, ageism, the “isms” have been able to hide for far to long and social media works to ferret them out for everyone to see. The latest example was brought to light by
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I had my first Uber service recently in Austin, TX. It was nothing short of remarkable. A few glitches (mostly self caused) but a far better experience than I have ever had in a cab. It was during this ride, and conversation with my driver William, that I made a few connections between business, learning and
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