The Amazing Era of Self-Service Learning

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Pat McLagan

The learning professional's role in self-service learning is to help learners make learning more effective, efficient, productive, innovative, and fun. This is the era of self-service. We pump our own gas, file our own taxes online, tally and bag our own g... More »

How to Accelerate Innovation

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Marcus Buckingham

This is an excerpt from Buckingham's latest book, StandOut: Find Your Edge, Win at Work, which is available September 13, 2011. We all revere innovation. It is the mystical driver of progress, the secret sauce, the touchstone we reach for whenever our backs are against ... More »

The Best of Best Practices: Critical Success Factors for Identifying and Measuring Industry-Leading Management Solutions

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Louis Carter

In today's uncertain economic climate, the ability to identify effective and actionable solutions to business challenges is more crucial than ever to the strategic management process. When there are substantial problems to be solved, best practice benchmarking providers... More »

The Leader Development Value Chain

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Stephen Cohen

By now, little convincing needs to be done regarding the relationship between great (even good) leadership and improved business performance. Whether it is anecdotal stories or fact-based research of how great leaders built up their organizations or sustained strong bus... More »

The Silent Killers of Productivity and Profit

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Chauncey Bell

As we make our way out of the recent recession, it is clear that the business world has changed dramatically and there will be no going back to the way things were. Yet the training and development world remains largely stuck in dated thinking, practices, and programs t... More »