Mathletics: How Gamblers, Managers, and Sports Enthusiasts Use Mathematics in Baseball, Basketball, and Football Wayne L. Winston Princeton University Press This book takes the kind of math-sports mashup that we first experienced in Michael Lewis's Moneyball and injects... More »

Learning & Development

Beginner Level Content , Change Management , Innovation , Social Learning , Training and Development - General

To equip sales representatives with the knowledge and skills to sell ventilation equipment, effectively support the business need to drive revenue from the ventilation market, and help key customers in the ventilation industry, ResMed created Achieve Ventilation, a prog... More »

Learning & Development , Sales Enablement

Business Impact , Europe , Intermediate-level Content , Measuring and Evaluating , Selling Skills

The firestorm created by an independent filmmaker who documented some unsavory activities in a couple of offices of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now - or ACORN - did not strike me as all that out of the ordinary in the day-to-day spitting match ... More »

Government , Learning & Development , Senior Leaders & Executives

Intermediate-level Content , Managing the Learning Function , Training and Development - General

Jay Cross is a champion of informal learning (and author of the definitive book on the topic), Web 2.0, and systems thinking. According to his website, www.jaycross.com: "His calling is to help business people improve their performance on the job and satisfaction in lif... More »

Learning & Development , Learning Technologies

Change Management , Informal Learning , Intermediate-level Content , Managing the Learning Function , Trends