Three recent posts have done a great job of showing where we are in the spread of Enterprise 2.0 –  the use of emergent social software platforms by companies to get work done. The first is Laurie Buczek’s “ The Big Failure of Enterprise 2.0 Social Business.&# Lack of cultural change is not social business’s biggest failure. We E2.0 MORE >>

And, more specifically, I would like to welcome you all to The Era of Intrapreneurship! There are plenty of blog posts out there that have covered very well the topic of “ The Future of the Workplace &# and the impact of social computing in helping shape up the business world to become a whole lot more open, engaged, transparent and nimble. MORE >>

A new book by my old friend Tyler Cowen, The Great Stagnation , has taken the media by storm, leading Business Week to proclaim Tyler as “America’s hottest economist” , even though his book was initially published only as an e-book.  It invites us to take a longer-term view of the changes that are re-shaping our economy and our society. MORE >>

I’ve written a few postings recently (notably  Social Learning doesn’t mean what you think it does ) where I have tried to show how the fundamental changes in how businesses are operating, require a fundamental change in how the L&D function needs to view workplace learning. Traditional workplace learning. New workplace learning. MORE >>

It's not often that you get a serties of points like this just begging to be refuted : > I don't think most of us want our dentists to be "out of the box" thinkers. All totally out of the box thinking. > I don't believe that when teaching a pilot to fly 747s we encourage a "don't memorize facts, look it up" training. We know they work. I'm 50. MORE >>