Once a year, my friend Kevin Wheeler hosts a retreat focused on the Future of Talent and major trends in human resources. I’m writing this post in a conference room overlooking the Pacific in Santa Cruz, California, sitting with a dozen senior talent managers. I’m going to share Kevin’s top five trends impacting HR leadership [...]

This article recently appeared in a newspaper in Rio: I stuffed the text into Google Translate and pressed the button. Then I cleaned up obvious misreads and goofs. The result is readable but is a Frankenstein’s monster; the pieces don’t quite fit together: Work = Improvisational theater Interview with Jay Cross ● Workshops are considered [...]

Yesterday I attended a beta workshop conducted by Jerry Michalski on the wecono.me (We+Economy), an application of the principles of the Relationship Economy. What is the Relationship Economy? Occupy Here’s the opening salvo. We used the hand signals of the Occupy movement as our public backchannel as we focused on reforming education. Scarcity vs abundance [...]

Harold, Jane, Charles, Clark, and I led a session this morning that recapped people’s DevLearn experience. We used a minute of silence to clear our heads of the noise of overstimulation. Then we focused on how what we’d learned in the last few days would change our behavior. This video was one of several catalysts [...]