I want to take a moment to have a deeper, more reflective conversation about the role that sketching plays in my professional work, and how it has evolved it over time. lot of sketching advice tends to be too general ("You should sketch!"), too superficial ("You need to buy these pens!"), or too self-congratulatory ("Look at the sketches I made!") MORE >>

Sloan Management Review has a great interview with Andy McAfee on What Sells CEOs on Social Networking. CEOs excitedly agree with Lew Platt’s old observation about Hewlett-Packard: “If only HP knew what HP knows, we’d be three times more productive.” Summit in Paris. On the net, facts don’t stay on the page. MORE >>

David Griffiths indulged in a little head banging this morning , and give he is in the same state of nervous anticipation for the same reason as I , no blame can be attached. His subject is a reaction to the latest KM is dead pronouncement, something I suggested some time ago, although the death throws are taking longer than I anticipated. MORE >>

Tweet What if your organization got rid of the Learning & Development function? What would the average manager or department head do? What would workers do? I’ve been thinking about this for a while. When work is learning, and learning is the work, training that is pushed from outside has less relevance. Break down barriers. MORE >>

Here is my pick of 10 articles about social learning since my last posting just before Christmas. have listed them below in chronological order, and also added a short quote from each of them to give you a flavour of what each is about. If you want to read further articles you will find many more that I have saved in my 2012 Reading List. MORE >>