Today, I published a new leadership and executive development search engine on my Learning to Change Business Website. Over the past three years I have been creating this search engine to enable users to more precisely find content related to leadership education. Google provides the capability to isolate the best sites that I find and target them for the search. I hope you find it useful! The search engine is also displayed on this page.
Hundreds of Gallons of Water in Every Shirt is interview with MIT Sloan professor Rebecca Henderson who is a founding member of the school’s Laboratory for Sustainable Business (S-Lab). In a interview with the Sloan Management Review she discusses sustainability and its implications for the future. She points to the climate impact in developing countries and the West’s business practices and predicts dire consequences of our current behavior.
Leading Blog is an excellent source of current information about leadership and the resources that support learning about leadership. Since I have noticed a number of good books on leadership lately, I wanted to highlight some of the best leadership books that they have selected in September:
A Sense of Urgency by John P. Kotter The Encore Effect: How to Achieve Remarkable Performance in Anything You Do by Mark Sanborn The Spider's Strategy: Creating Networks to Avert Crisis, Create Change, and Really Get Ahead by Amit S. Mukherjee On Leadership: Essential Principles for Success by Donald J. Palmisano The Truth About You: Your Secret to Success by Marcus Buckingham 
This presentation by George Siemens puts learning and technologies in context, especially in light of the fact that migration to social media is accelerating.
Kevin Jones in his blog Engaged Learning is in the midst of a series of posts on how Enterprise 2.0 tools can be used in organizations to increase learning. His focus is primarily on objections and barriers to accepting Enterprise 2.0 solutions and how to overcome them.
In addition to Kevin's writings there is a long conversation occurring on the Enterprise 2.0 Conference discussion site. The title is Barriers to Adoption of Enterprise 2.0 Initiatives. Some of the points are similar.
Law firm education does need to improve in China, as is indicated in a post from the Law Blog - WSJ.com : Notes From China: Legal Education Playing Catch-Up, in a Hurry. As I have researched the capabilities of Chinese companies to participate in the a global economy, it is remarkable how deficient the legal education system is. International Law firms entering China have a difficult time hiring good attorneys and companies willing to make investments find it difficult to find firms with the expected expertise.
Many CFOs are concerned about the the credit crunch and the reduction in consumer demand caused by higher prices.
The British Library has published research that shows ‘Google Generation’ is a myth". The link will take you to a press release about the findings of the study. To put it simply all generations are adopting electronic media and libraries must accept that a "digital mindset" is required to connect with people seeking information.
The British Library and JISC commissioned report Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future conducted by the Centre for Information Behaviour and the Evaluation of Research (CIBER) at UCL was launched on 16 January 2008.
