I was defending Kirkpatrick’s  levels the other day, and after being excoriated by my ITA colleagues, I realized there was not only a discrepancy between principle and practice, but between my interpretation and as it’s espoused. Perhaps I’ve been too generous. whether the intervention is being applied in the workplace, and. MORE >>

To freely choose barter as the basis for work is to commercialize our relationships and ourselves. treat myself as a transaction in the making. value myself according to what I can get for myself. My market value becomes my only value. am now worth what the market will bear. So why shouldn't I get the highest price possible? Here's the thing. MORE >>

Richard Rummelt, in Good Strategy / Bad Strategy , opened my eyes to a simple test to help you see if you have effective strategic initiatives. But before I describe the test here's some context. Crafting a strategy involves choosing a course of action to achieve desired outcomes over a set time period. Strategic clarity MORE >>

Tweet In The 3 Structures of an Organization , the BetaCodex Network covers the weaknesses of our existing management and organizational models and shows a better way to design more network-centic businesses. This still accounts for a significant amount of wasted energy. Organizations should dedicate 70% of their energies toward value creation. MORE >>

Last week saw the announcement of the new Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education by the (US) Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL). They define Visual Literacy (VL) as "a set of abilities that enables an individual to effectively find, interpret, evaluate, use, and create images and visual media". MORE >>