Nine Shift

Why everyone's in a band

Our son Willie is in a band. But then, so are most kids.

The reason why became clearer last week at our big LERN annual conference when keynoter Debbie Weill noted that Gen Y wants to create content. This concept: that your customers, participants, learners - - want to create content, is huge.  It changes your/my organization from offering content to interacting with our community of participants in harnessing their ability to create content. Wow.

What are your thoughts on this?

Walmart spurs universal health insurance

Not intentionally, of course. But the cracks in the corporate care of its workers is now glaringly obvious.

A report about the biggest users of a state supported health care program for full time workers in Wisconsin found that Walmart employees were the biggest block of participants, with more than 2,900 participating in the state. When one of the world's richest corporations cannot even pay health insurance for its own workers, you've got problems.

A recent Boston Globe survey of corporate CEOs in Massachussetts discovered new found support for universal health care among business leaders.  Don't get your hopes up, we've been working on this for about 100 years, but maybe, just maybe, the time is getting closer......