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Learned about Learning in 2009

Tony Karrer

I’m convinced that we are all struggling to have our Work Skills Keep Up. It’s going to cause us to think about models in very different ways such as how Intuit has Outsourced Training to Customers. Work Event? And many of my 2009 Top Posts and Topics are related to exactly this. Learning Event?

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Decisions, decisions. Business decisions.

Jay Cross

Training directors see learners; everyone else sees workers or employees.). Knowledge Workers. The knowledge worker’s objective is to learn what it takes to do the best she can. A great industrial worker might be half again as productive as his middle-of-the road peer. These people need the room to excel.