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Keeping Things from Employees Doesn't Work

Yeah, Everyone Needs Business Acumen "The least expensive way to improve human performance is to let people know what is expected of...

Emphasize Practice over Content

Simulations are Real-World Practice "For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them." ~ Aristotle My son...

Realizing the Question to Ask is the Payoff

Ask Better Questions at Work "What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question." ~ Jonas Salk...

Learners Really Like Learning This Way, and That's the Point

Learners Prefer Learning This Way "Eighty percent of success is showing up." ~ Woody Allen Overheard in the break area . . . “You guys...

Some say profit is an opinion. They're right, and that's okay.

Profit is an Opinion "The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made." ~ Groucho Marx The other...

Learners' Nods May Not Mean What You Think

Is it agreement or is it learning? "We cannot simply absorb other people's knowledge, we must create our own." ~ Klas Mellander We all...

Focus Leadership Development on Performance

Business Leadership Requires Competency and Performance "As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The...

It's Difficult to Learn Business by Reading Financial Statements

Don't Just Use the Scoreboard to Teach Business "Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a company work,...

Business Simulations and Merrill's First Principles

Engage with Real Examples and People Learn More "What we learn to do, we learn by doing." ~ Aristotle There's been a bit of a quality...

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Insights from Dan Topf

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