CU Workbook Launches

Last Friday was an exciting day as the CU Workbook was finally available to the public. Eileen and I would very much like to hear your thoughts about the book and about corporate universities in general.

We would like to attract a worldwide community of commentators and thinkers on corporate education. There is a movement to expand the number of corporate universities worldwide, yet at the same time there is no agreement as to the definition of a corporate university. In some cases they are little more than an extension of the normal training and development function -- sort of a rose by another name. On the other hand, many are substantially different and are involved strategically and dynamically in the success of a organziation.

I would like to see a corporate university community that is focused on:

- linking doing, reflecting and learning.
- exploring new techniques and ideas to foster creativity and innovation.
- moving away from classrooms, professors, and serial learning into an environment where everyone contributes to the learning and where parallel thinking is encouraged.
- learning by playing in the intersections of disciplines and by intertwining concepts and ideas from diverse backgrounds.
- and by an experience that is culturally rich and open to everyone.

We would love your thoughts, ideas, comments and success or failure stories. The goal is make this a living, current documentary on the changing nature of corporate universities and education.