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Research: We’re Not Very Self-Aware, Especially at Work

Harvard Business Review

If you’ve participated in a training or development program in the past two decades, chances are you took an assessment designed to increase self-awareness. Yet in talent development practice, companies spend millions of dollars and countless hours every year on self-reported assessments that only target self-knowledge.

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Games Can Make You a Better Strategist

Harvard Business Review

Books are great to foster intellectual understanding but are not interactive and do not reflect the reality of busy schedules and declining attention spans. And coaching or mentoring approaches have great merits for personal development, but are hard to scale. Live pilots are highly realistic but costly, time consuming and risky.

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The Top Six Innovation Ideas of 2011

Harvard Business Review

That is, the importance of "research & development" to business innovation. There will be a Farmville counterpart or equivalent that becomes a welcome teaching and/or business simulation and learning tool in the enterprise. It's easy to marry a WWWabsite with a contest, for example. I haven't a clue.