Ensuring Peace of Mind When You Travel

Aparna Nancherla

Choosing to travel at all these days seems like automatically tempting fate. With the upsurge in airline delays, lost baggage, security alerts, unpredictable weather, and other last-minute unforeseen snafus, there's just no telling what could happen on the way to or at ... More »

Summer Beach Reading

ASTD Staff

Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies: And Other Pricing Puzzles Richard B. McKenzie Springer-Verlag The author of this book wrote a clever column in The Wall Street Journal earlier this year about how he had applied economics to dieting. McKenzie essentially agreed t... More »

Compassssion Meets Excellence in Leadership

Aparna Nancherla

Catholic Healthcare Partners is one of the largest, not-for-profit healthcare systems in the United States, consisting of approximately 35,000 associates. Its operations, comprising more than 100 organizations, are divided into 10 geographical regions of practice, inclu... More »

Project or Process

Rex Davenport

As evidenced by this quote, George Bernard Shaw seems to have grasped the importance of measurement long before the workplace learning field did. There are no learning experts out there who want us to think that the measurement itself is the key to success in workplace ... More »

Homegrown Leadership

Rex Davenport

Learning Executives Briefing: What are the biggest challenges for the Schwan Company in the area of succession planning? Stiber: Because we are located in Marshall, Minnesota, we, unlike businesses headquartered in larger cities, have a challenge that some of our compet... More »