Let’s talk about competent people workshop – warming up

Web 2.0 is a major shift in the way people think. Thinking is now distributed across minds, tools and media, groups of people, and space and time.

Chris Decle, Harvard

If you want one year of prosperity, grow grain.If you want ten years of prosperity,grow trees.If you want a hundred years of prosperity,grow people.

Chinese proverb

The most important contribution to management in the 21st century will be to increase knowledge worker productivity.

Peter Drucker

Organizations are not all that interested in learning : it is too indirect and too long time away from value, and it is too individual.

Learning culture is the most important characteristic of performing companies.

Bersin report, 2010

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Alvin Toffler

Information is free.

Experience is expensive.

If we agree that mastery demands experience, we have to realize that much of our role in L&D is to facilitate and accelerate the ability for a person to gain more experience.

Bersin report on High Impqct Learning

The ratio of we’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team.

I forgot who said this.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Thomas Henry Huxly 

“There is a professional transition in the field from an environment where competition was the dominant mode of interacting with other organizations to an era where dividing labor and sharing might serve the public better.”