April 01, 2012 - by ASTD Staff
Mark Miller, a business leader, bestselling author, and communicator, began writing about a decade ago. He teamed up with Ken Blanchard, co-author of The One Minute Manager, to write The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do. Today, almost 400,000 copies of&n... More »
April 01, 2012 - by Michael Lee Stallard
The rock band U2 has had a phenomenal run since it began in 1976, winning 22 Grammy awards―more than any band in history. The band recently surpassed the Rolling Stones’ record for the highest grossing concert tour. Critics rave about U2’s music, and fans wo... More »
- by ASTD Staff
A decidedly different measure of success drives learning and development at the U.S. General Services Administration. Linda Osgood, director of the Human Capital Asset Management Division in the General Services Administration's Public Buildings Service Office of Organ... More »
Convincing upper management to use simulation-based learning is part of the battle. It's understandable for senior executives to be dubious about the new era of 3-D games and immersive worlds now making their entrance onto the corporate learning stage. Although ubiquito... More »
According to social research, we generally don't like advice when it comes to entrenched problems and rarely yield to it. In Influencer: The Power to Change Anything, a book I would recommend to anyone interested in motivating others, the authors (Kerry Patterson, et ... More »