I was at Cornerstone’s Analysts Day in London this week, held the day before the main Cornerstone Connect customer event. It gave me a glimpse of where L&D may be heading. Not because of a product announcement, although it looked good, or the use of AI, which felt different. What stood out was the direction… Read More The SWP-shaped hole in L&D
I have three ideas for books in my head, on paper and in draft form right now. However, as Tim Ferriss says, the market for information is collapsing. The market for transformation is not. It is getting smaller, more specific, and more interesting. I might reach a few hundred thousand people with promotion, podcasts and… Read More Writing books
I was in a session last week and a participant came up with a great line – learning as a service. L&D already operates like bad SaaS but most people in L&D just don’t know what that means yet. SaaS stands for Software as a Service. The “as a service” part is important – it… Read More LaaS
I posted yesterday about the shift from studio to system in L&D. That post diagnosed the problem; this post attempts to respond to it. If the organisation is already producing learning without you, the answer is not to compete with it, ignore it or drag everything back into the formal offer. The answer is to… Read More Learning Reality: Six Shifts from Studio to System
I know I get stuff wrong. When I write something like the 50 more Big Ideas for example, I ‘know’ some people will be looking at it and criticising, challenging and probably laughing. As Seth Godin so brilliantly put this week, if people aren’t laughing behind your back: …it’s possible you’re not being bold enough,… Read More Comedic interludes