693 - Great by Choice, Cybersecurity, Like a Wedding?
October 11, 2011 Learning TRENDS by Elliott Masie - October 11. 2011.
#693 - Updates on Learning, Business & Technology.
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1. Great by Choice - Jim Collins’ Latest Book.
2. America the Vulnerable - New Book on Cyber Security Threat.
3. How Planning a Wedding and a Conference Are Similar - Seats & Uncle Mort!
1. “Great by Choice” - Jim Collins’ Latest Book: Today, we start with 2 books that I would like to recommend to TRENDS readers. The first is “Great by Choice” by Jim Collins, author of “Good to Great”. He and Morten Hansen take a look at the type of unstable environments faced by leaders today. Some of their findings were surprising and intriguing:
“The best leaders were not more risk taking, more visionary, and more creative than the comparisons; they were more disciplined, more empirical and more paranoid.”
They also look at the challenge and opportunity to “scale” innovation and to blend creativity with discipline. Check it out - a good read!
2. “America the Vulnerable” - New Book on Cyber Security Threat: The next book may get you depressed or scared, but it is key for learning professionals to have a sense of the growing cyber security threats, particularly as we leverage more technology to create, share and access knowledge in our organizations. “America the Vulnerable: Inside the New Threat Matrix of Digital Espionage, Crime, and Warfare” is by Joel Brenner, who was the Inspector General of NSA and national counterintelligence executive in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Once again, this is a sobering perspective that is needed in our corporate executive suites.
3. How Planning a Wedding and a Conference Are Similar - Seats & Uncle Mort! On a much lighter note, read my recent blog entry about how planning a wedding is quite similar to producing a conference. I detail very specific numbers that are part of the complex handicapping for how many people will be at Learning 2011. How do we plan for last minute registrations, walk-ins, cancellations and other realities of any event? And, how to deal with ordering food, bags and furniture for 2,000 people, give or take a few hundred? http://www.learning2011.com/489-Like-a-Wedding-28-Days.htm
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Yours in Learning,
Elliott Masie.
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