This document discusses the importance of learning and developing people. It notes that thinking is now distributed across groups and over space and time. It also emphasizes that facilitating experience and a learning culture will be most important for organizations in the 21st century. Finally, it suggests that cooperation rather than competition may better serve the public interest.

1. Let’s talk about competent people
workshop – warming up

2. 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

3. 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

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

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

6. Learning culture is the most important
characteristic of performing companies.
Bersin report, 2010

7. 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

8. Information is free.
Experience is expensive.

9. 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

10. The ratio of we’s to I’s is the best indicator
of the development of a team.
I forgot who said this.

11. The great end of life is not knowledge but
action.
Thomas Henry Huxly

12. “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.”