Papers & Reports

Robert Rosenfeld: An Entrepreneurial Culture
Duke CE Network educator Dr. Robert Rosenfeld offers insights to organizations that want to react more quickly to market opportunities and encourage employees to be entrepreneurial.
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China Talent Development: Learning and Development Perspectives
Duke CE interviewed more than 30 companies between October 2010 and March 2011 to learn about business and talent challenges in China and gained advice on how we could best support talent development in China.
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Beyond the Sage on the Stage
Co-authored by Duke CE's Cheryl Stokes and GLRN member James Gilmore, this article that appears in the July 2011 issue of Chief Learning Officer magazine discusses how immersive learning experiences engage participants and better position offerings to enable success. CLO Magazine 10:7, July 2011, pp34-35.
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Learning and Development Perspectives: Fast-Growing Markets
Duke CE's biennial survey (produced in 2011) focuses in on India, South Africa and the Gulf, interviewing 30 L&D professionals to gain their insights.
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A Classroom Without Walls
Program participants are learning in and from the streets, shops, homes and businesses of countries to which they are unaccustomed. They experience the sights, smells and, at times, chaos of unfamiliar markets in culturally immersive experiences. Two are highlighted here.
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Using Learning to Drive a Culture of Safety
Todd Warner and Ian Turner provide two examples of how cultural change can improve safety performance in industries such as engineering, energy, extractive and construction.
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Partners of Choice: Building a Flexible Workforce Through Relationships
Leah Houde and Justin Carlson describe an innovative way to look at relationships with members of your workforce who are not traditional full-time employees.
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Can We Talk About ROI?
Judy Rosenblum advises spending time on business goals, doing what you say you are going to do, and proving that you did it in this column on ROI.
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Through the Government Looking Glass
Then-CEO Kim Taylor-Thompson facilitated a discussion on how government and industry can increase transparency through industry and technology. More than 100 professionals shared ideas and brainstormed about how government and industry can work together in the event convened by The American Council on Technology (ACT) and the Industry Advisory Council (IAC). Marla Tuchinsky and Christine Robers summarize their discussions.
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A Second Look at Second Life
As companies face budget cuts, virtual worlds are earning another look as a cost-effective way to deliver development across regional boundaries. Steve Mahaley looks at the technical, security and instructional aspects of these learning environments. CLO Magazine 8:5, May 2009, pp21-27.
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The Learning Function as Design Lab
Steve Mahaley details thing to consider as companies begin to look at redesigning current programs leveraging existing technology as a way to reduce expense and improve quality. CLO Magazine 8:5, May 2009, p24.
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Leading in Turbulent Times
In stressful circumstances, leaders need to remember that not all risks are bad, and not all opportunities for growth disappear. Here is a three-part framework for leaders in turbulent times.

  1. External – What does value creation look like when markets are volatile?
  2. Internal – What organizational capabilities does your company need in order to capitalize on opportunities?
  3. Personal – What individual capabilities do leaders need to be effective in such times?
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Strategically Developing Strategic Leaders
Jared Bleak and Robert Fulmer discuss how organizations can be constantly renewed by senior executives developing themselves and their successors. This chapter is excerpted from Linkage Inc's Best Practices in Leadership Development Handbook 2nd Edition, San Francisco, Pfeiffer, 2009.
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Identifying and Developing Global Leaders
Schon Beechler and Dennis Baltzley identify the qualities leaders need to compete and win in a global context. Chapter 24 in Routledge Companion to Strategic Human Resource Management. J. Storey, P. Wright and D. Ulrich (Eds). New York. 2009.

Learning and Development in 2011: A Focus on the Future
Duke CE's 2009 client study, in the midst of the economic downturn, compiled the thoughts of 142 L&D professionals looking ahead.
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Business is the Curriculum, and Leaders are Teachers
Gil McWilliam and Michael Chavez team with Sushanth Tharrapan of Infosys to discuss when and how it can be effective to have organizational leaders teach employees. CLO Magazine 7:11, November 2008, pp46-49.
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Creating a Global Mindset
Schon Beechler and Dennis Baltzley show why it's important to develop a leadership pipeline full of global citizens. CLO Magazine 7:6, June 2008.
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Hospitals Show How to Accelerate Learning
Jared Bleak explores how learning methods from a top teaching hospital can be applied in the corporate world. CLO Magazine 7:4, April 2008.
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Breakthrough Model for Implementing Strategy
Judy Rosenblum describes the need to develop organizational capability as a crucial step in executing your strategy and taking your organization from its current reality to its business destination.
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Building the Future
Global businesses are finding that learning can happen anywhere, according to our resident Second Life guru Steve Mahaley.
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Destination Mumbai
A financial services firm takes leaders on an expedition to India to learn something new about customer service.
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Do Organizations Have Values?
Using Duke CE as an example, Liz Mellon analyzes the implications of applying human values to organizations.
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Larger than Life
Negro League baseball icons help senior business leaders build trust and relationships with clients in the Art of Biography experience.
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The Leadership Advantage
Bob Fulmer and Jared Bleak co-authored a book titled The Leadership Advantage: How the Best Companies Are Developing Their Talent to Pave the Way for Future Success.
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Out of the Familiar
Duke CE's Metaphoric Experience™ learning method takes participants out of their familiar context, getting them to experiment with new behaviors, skills and perspectives.
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