Today is a day for some serious course development: I am currently working on materials for up-coming Presentation Skills and Consulting workshops. For me, writing workshop materials is an iterative process and I feel this is a good general recommendation whenever you wish to access your 'best thinking'. Do an initial (fast) first pass. Then leave it to 'incubate' and finally come back to edit, improve and polish.
It's been an enjoyable week, spending time again with the excellent Warwick Business School full-time MBA cohort. As I have mentioned in an earlier post, recruiters: you should be tallking to these guys, they are a very high quality year.
Yesterday with some 'top talent' from Barclays: some good thinking around 'The New World of Work'.
I'm encouraging all of these audiences to read Chris Anderson here and here. Have you absorbed his ideas yet? Whether you agree or not, you need to be aware of them.