My conversation with academics

Phd: I heard you think you have a great program. Me: I do. I have this great program to develop people. PhD: Why is it so good? Me: Because it makes people more productive in the workplace. PhD: So it's vocational? That's not really my thing. Me: No, it's around... More »

Dear Hollywood (a heads up from the training world),

Dear Hollywood, I bring you tidings from the Corporate training world. I hope you are doing well, and am looking forward to your summer fare. I just have two pieces of bad news for you, and as a friend, I thought I would break it to you directly. Here is the... More »

My ode to PowerPoint

Regarding the Big Question, I love PowerPoint to create graphics and present findings. What is great about them is that I can first play with them for a while to get them right, then embed them in Word documents, where they are small from a size perspective, remain ... More »

Big Question - PowerPoint

Due to some new research, the appropriate use of PowerPoint is again a topic of discussion. I went back to look at different opinions expressed in the past, and I'm not sure that there's much consensus on whether we should use PowerPoint, how... More »

The New Hierarchy: First, learning to BE; second, learning to DO; and only then, learning to KNOW

I had a high school teacher who observed that the male students seemed to spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to be male students, and the female students seemed to spend a lot of time trying figure out how to get male students. As I work with companies ... More »