Tweet Can your organization work without bosses? In the documentary, Ban the Boss (one hour BBC video) Paul Thomas shows that most organizations can run just fine without bosses, or at least without traditional, hierarchical bosses who tell workers what to do. mass society, thousands, then millions strong, confers immense advantages on its members. 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Tweet Here are some of the insights and observations that were shared via Twitter this past week. EskoKilpi – “Learning is the main driver for productivity. Productivity of learning determines the speed of productivity improvement.” ” by @snowded. It matters who you teach. ” by @JayCross. Do we need patents? by @lemire. MORE >>