What do the Titanic, the housing bubble of 2008 and the Spanish Armada have in common? They’re all the result of overconfidence. As a species, we’re notoriously overconfident. It’s deeply engrained in our evolutionary biology,...
When you’re not performing well or you don’t understand a topic, do you:
A. Dig deeper into your individual study and hope the information “clicks”?
Or
B. Find someone who...
The best success stories often begin with failure. Michael Jordan didn’t make his high school basketball team. Bob Dylan’s band, the Golden Chords, lost a high-school talent competition to a tap dancing act.Stephen Spielberg...
When it comes to learning, adults have distinct needs and characteristics that drive their behavior, compared to younger learners.
Your people want to learn. And it turns out that when organizations deliver training in a modern way – with new techniques, science based principles and cutting-edge technology – training that used to be met with...
We’re all fakers. At some point, we have all faked a laugh. We've feigned interest. We've probably even pretended to know what we were doing when we really had no clue.
According to a recent article on CNBC, Amazon’s cloud business is considering expanding into learning management. With the LMS market worth $5.2 billion today, and expected to grow to $16 billion over the next four...
Bonuses, rising wages, stock buybacks and capital investment projects designed to create jobs and increase productivity – these are just some of the ways that the nation’s largest corporations are allocating their recent tax...
According to a recent Insidehighered.com article, Amazon is quietly working with a pioneer in learning science and open educational delivery, Dr. Candace Thille, PhD., to “scale and innovate workplace learning at Amazon.” As founding...
