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Same Feedback, New Messenger, Better Results

Who gives the feedback can matter as much as what it says. And feedback on development pays off, given time.

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AI Made Consultants 40% Better, With One Catch

On tasks AI handles well, quality jumped. The trick is knowing where that zone ends.

37 Countries, One Fear
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37 Countries, One Fear

Pew surveyed 37 countries. In 34, people expect AI to cost more jobs than it creates. Those expectations walk into every training room.

Let the Junior Go First
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Let the Junior Go First

McKinsey has a simple answer to the question of how juniors learn when AI does the grunt work: attempt first, compare second, talk third.

From Around the World

Four Quechua Words for Developing People

Know, care, work, give back. A university in Cusco builds its idea of education on four Andean values.

Same Bonus, Different Inventions
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Same Bonus, Different Inventions

Cash rewards made specialists invent less but better, and generalists invent more. The same bonus buys different things.

31 Percent, Again
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31 Percent, Again

U.S. engagement is stuck at 31 percent. Gallup's data shows what moves it when AI arrives: a clear plan and a manager who backs it.

From Around the World

People Learn When They Feel Accepted

Chilean biologist Humberto Maturana saw love, accepting others as they are, as the ground of all social life. Santiago's La Tercera traced his thinking.

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Māori Leaders Build on Those Who Came Before

Māori leadership reaches across generations, and even beyond people. A study in Human Relations shows how it holds together.

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Knowledge Travels Best as a Yarn

Tyson Yunkaporta, an Aboriginal scholar from far north Queensland, shows how Indigenous knowledge moves through yarning. His book Sand Talk is a lesson in learning as conversation.

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The Herders Who Teach Through Stories

On the Mongolian steppe, nomadic herders pass on what they know by telling stories. A study asks how to keep that channel open, in both directions.

From Around the World

Japan Learns in the Pottery, the Bathhouse and the Dugout

A classic collection follows Japanese learners from Noh stages to pottery workshops, garages and baseball fields. The common thread: mastery grows by taking part, over many years.