Confidence Grows Among Learning Executives

Rex Davenport

As the economy improves, so do the fortunes of learning organizations. Despite a few dispirited opinions, most learning executives anticipate general improvement in their departments and in their profession. Learning executives revealed more optimism in key areas in the... More »

Deep Specialization for Competetive Advantage

Josh Bersin

How does an organization maintain its competitive advantage during economic turmoil and a transformational market environment? Our newest research shows that one of the most critical keys to success is deep specialization. Deep specialization refers to an organization's... More »

Building Higher-Skilled Employees

Rex Davenport

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services, and outsourcing company. Accenture's clients span the full range of industries around the world and include 96 of the Fortune Global 100 and more than three-quarters of the Fortune Global 500. With revenu... More »

Feel Like Gambling? How About Writing a Book on Social Media?

ASTD Staff

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 »

Do You Ever Stand Down?

Rex Davenport

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 »