Of late, I’ve seen a disturbing trend. Not only are the purveyors of existing solutions preaching caution and steadiness, but it even seems like some of the  ’names’ of the field are talking in ways that make it easy to think that the industry is largely doing ok. We  know what leads to effective learning outcomes. So lead the way. MORE >>

'It’s easy to be self-righteous when you’re pregnant. At least it was for me. It was very easy for me to clearly define in my own mind what sort of a parent I would be and what sort I would definitely not be. When pregnant, you have nine months to create an elaborate vision in your head of what your life as a parent will be like. MORE >>

Unlike most of the Yammer case studies I've seen, Tyco International set out with the deliberate objective of replacing their traditional static intranet with Yammer, in order to create a social intranet. This might sound surprising in a Yammer rollout, but clearly Tyco were trying to deal with a number of constraints (i.e. MORE >>

Autodesk, academia and coming-of-age firms like Stratsys and Organovo are all collaborating on an incredible new dimension on creation with programable materials MORE >>

'We''ve said often on this blog that you just don''t get the benefits of storytelling (meaning, memory, caring) unless you are telling a story. Over at the HBR blog last week Jeff Bladt and Bob Filbin from DoSomething.org wrote a piece entitled  A Data Scientist''s Real Job: Storytelling. Their point was simple. Data on its own is not enough. 2005). MORE >>