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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Day 4 - Man.Im just getting warmed up! (and a shocker!)

Mark Oehlert

(found via an article in the Wall Street Journal) turns out that a Harvard professor has found out that the arguments put forward by WIRED editor Chris Anderson in The Long Tail, might not be exactly spot on. " Elberse writes that "It is therefore highly disputable that much money can be made in the tail. " Geez.

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The Future Business of Learning for Suppliers

Performance Learning Productivity

He references The Masie Barometer which provides a late-March 2009 snapshot of learning & development in a range of organisations – 77% of respondents based in the USA. THE MASIE BAROMETER and CIPD 2009 SURVEY It is useful to look at the Masie Learning Resources Barometer data alongside the UK CIPD data gathered a few months earlier.

Business 100
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Listen: Discover Financial Services’ Jon Kaplan on tuition assistance programs and the importance of building trust among your learning team

CLO Magazine

If you ever want to get trained to how to build support in a hostile corporate environment, go teach in a university and say, “I’d like to suggest adding a new course to our curriculum.” But, if you create environments in which they don’t trust each other it can get very nasty very quickly.

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