There was a tradeoff decision at play – keep the team focused on being productive versus spending resources to improve them productivity skills. Keep them communicating with their clients versus brushing up on their communication skills. The act of leading versus developing leadership abilities. Doing versus improving.

I think we can safely agree that there is more content out there than we can possibly consume in our waking lives.  Even three years ago, we were producing more content every two days than we did in our entire written history up to 2003, according to Google CEO Eric Schmidt. And much of it is free. So we can consume, passively, on an unprecedented scale.  We can collect information, search for answers in a nano-second and generally feel we have […]