This is part of our “Designed To Win” series on the millennial workforce. Full disclosure: I am a millennial. Every generation experiences what is known as “shared sense-making.” It is the process in which individuals within a generation jointly interpret their environment and create collective narratives from which they derive meaning. This process, through the [...]
Part of our Designed To Win series on the millennial workforce For many of us, motivation comes from larger-than-life characters that embody what we all hope to attain someday. Being a millennial, the generation born between the years of 1980-2000, it’s not hard to observe our complete fascination with the ‘celebrity factor.’ Born into an [...]
A blog series written by a millennial To the millennials: You were designed to win. The cells of your body, the synapses of your brain, the muscles in your arms and legs, the consciousness of your soul, the interactions you have with others – all of these were specifically manufactured for you to win. They [...]
Over the past year the topic of social learning and creating an organizational environment which fosters sharing, collaboration and informal learning has really taken off. We’ve studied it, written papers on it, presented on it and have even asked some of our clients to pilot certain concepts of it. Social learning is the concept that [...]
A study of S&P 500 companies over 20 years (1988-2007) shows that those companies that exclusively promote CEOs from within outperform companies that recruit CEOs from outside the company. An argument could be made that most internal promotions, CEO or otherwise, have great potential to add value to companies moving forward in the future. Sure, [...]
As a yearly tradition we like to showcase the most read NDCBlogger posts in the last year. We think this gives an opportunity to provide knowledge, insights and tips on some of the most discussed and read topics we’ve had the privilege to write. It has been our pleasure to share our real-life experiences and [...]
A couple weeks ago we introduced you to the concept of social learning. Although the concept has been around for over 60 years, workplace education is seeing a rebirth of this theory in recent years due to the explosion of social technologies. Next week Michael and I will be presenting the concept of social learning [...]
One of the exciting new disciplines in the industry of education and learning (both institutionally as well as in the workplace), is this notion of social learning through new technology. The idea of social learning has actually been around for over 60 years. Social learning theory was originally derived from the works of Albert Bandura [...]
I recently finished the book, Onward, by Starbucks’ founder Howard Schultz. Schultz does a great job, not only at explaining where Starbucks was at the time that he retook control of the company (after stepping down as CEO 8 years earlier), but he also created a road map on how he methodically brought Starbucks back from [...]
Over the past year, I have been discussing in my blog posts this idea of the ‘larger story’ of your department, organization and your professional life and some of the new and fresh ways to tell that story. As I once heard someone say, “To be a person or a company is to have a [...]