Creative solutions, critical skills

Dave Pollard writes a consistently interesting (and prolific!) blog on a wide variety of subjects, mainly centering around business innovation and knowledge management. There’s so much there it’s sometimes difficult to keep up with everything that he posts, but much of what he writes is worth reading.

This article from a couple of days ago is an interesting - and comprehensively argued - take on managing change in organisations. Dave’s perspective is that the only way that organisations will succeed in the long term is to enable its employees to work smarter rather than harder - and the only to ensure that this happens is to equip them with the skills and the competencies that they need.

Invest effectively in developing Critical Skills and you’ll reap Creative Solutions. That’s the best ROI you can get.

A quick summary like this really doesn’t do justice to the very comprehensively thought-out arguments - and it’s made more interesting by the fact that Dave is practising what he preaches, reinventing himself publicly along the lines that he’s suggesting. Consistently thought-provoking, he’s worth a visit.