Madston Black , a top-tier leadership development consultancy, recently engaged me to do some executive briefings on the future of business as part of some of leadership programs they are running for major Australian organizations. Professor Ronald Heifetz Adaptive Leadership Presentation from Jimmy Tsang on Vimeo. Experiments Pervasively. MORE >>

I've written before about my relationship with Foursquare , and I'm sure I will again. I've tweeted my complaint that the "friend" mechanism is poorly instrumented (in various ways), and I should note that this is certainly not just a Foursquare problem (more on "Friendstrimentation" shortly). What do I mean by that? think you get the point. MORE >>

Formal training just won’t cut it any more as the primary means by which we prepare and adapt in order to get work done. Training isn’t dead, it’s just not enough, and cannot be the only tool in the box. As can be seen in Kurtz’s graphic, that means weaker central control which is, of course, scary for traditional management. MORE >>

A few weeks back I had the privilege of a conversation with Patricia Eng who directs knowledge management for the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. had met Patricia at KM World the previous November, and was impressed by her passionate, no-nonsense, deeply practical approach to KM, not to mention a very robust sense of humour. Enjoy! MORE >>

There's a video of Tara Brabazon 's keynote at the Middlesex University Learning & Teaching conference in June 2010. She is a tremendous speaker and very good for getting key issues out there. must say I also like her way of dealing with latecomers (i.e. embarrass them by picking out some aspect of how great they look). MORE >>