2010 April
All Aboard the “Neo-Millennial Learning” Train
April 14, 2010 0 Comments
Emerging jargon in the training business includes terms such as”neo-millennial learning styles,” “mediated immersion,” and “distributed-learning communities.” Is all this just training industry obfuscation or do these new terms indicate substantive changes in the way people learn? We argue for the latter! According to Chis Read More
Expatriate Selection – The $1 Million Man (or Woman)
April 13, 2010 0 Comments
We have checked out a lot of great talent development ideas in this blog; however, the other side of being a successful talent developer is understanding what causes talent failure. One of the most expensive areas of talent failure is with expatriates! Expatriate failure is Read More
Tragic Change in Poland
April 12, 2010 0 Comments
Polish President Lech Kaczynski died in a horrific plane crash along with about 100 other high ranking Polish officials on Friday. According to the New York Times, there is now speculation about the pilot’s state of mind at the time of the crash. The article Read More
We Don’t Want to be Downers, but are your Career Prospects Evaporating?
April 9, 2010 0 Comments
Careers are not what they used to be! Some professions (e.g. medicine, law, and the military) still offer a fairly consistent career structure, but for most of us, the old and reliable career structures are evaporating. This is not a problem for “Millenials” (born 1980 Read More
How is your Quantum Physics? You may need it to Improve your Organization’s Performance!
April 8, 2010 0 Comments
Organizational cultures are like magnetic fields that cannot be seen but are strongly felt throughout the organization! Organizational communication is like a gravitational force that pulls employees in the right direction! Interactions between members of the organization are like sub-atomic particles – it is not Read More
Business Acumen Boot Camp is not for Sissies
April 7, 2010 0 Comments
Spring is in the air, buds are starting to bloom, the economy is starting to turn, and the sap is rising in the veins of entrepreneur’s everywhere (forgive the poetic license – it has been a hard winter). But although our entrepreneur’s sap is rising Read More
Hiring Talented Business Acumen and Business Acu-women
April 6, 2010 0 Comments
Okay, so it was a catchy title—there is really no gender difference when it comes to business acumen. But wait, what exactly do we mean by business acumen, and how do we know it when we see it? When trying to determine if an individual Read More
What is a “Meta” for? (Make that Metaphor)
April 5, 2010 0 Comments
Many of us think successful executives are 800-pound gorillas in the corner office. Big, brave, and bold. In reality, of course, many successful managers are owls, foxes, sharks, or even turtles. I am speaking, of course, in metaphors. A metaphor is a figure of speech Read More
Should you take a Homographic Approach to your Career Planning?
April 2, 2010 0 Comments
A Homo what?? Homographs are words that have two distinct meanings. For example: “It’s probably not appropriate if we appropriate their results” or “the august citizen will take office in August” or in the case of career planning, “his career ended after his car was Read More
Career Development and Playing the Banjo
April 1, 2010 0 Comments
Three years ago I started taking banjo lessons. Don’t ask me why. I guess the idea of being totally unfashionable just appealed to me. I didn’t know what I was getting myself in for! My teacher just happened to be a former world champion banjo Read More
