Hi Harold,

Great post and basically I do not disagree on the fundamentals but I wonder sometimes that if we could survey all the organizations in all the world whether statistics like we quote would hold up.

I was chatting with a friend who works with the U.N. the other day about this and she stated that in the corporate world that may be the case but in her two worlds she deals with (the military and aid organizations) nearly all their training is formal education.

It got me thinking that we need to be more explicit about context and we need to have more acknowledgement that there is massive benefit in the harnessing of 70:20:10 for our "rosy" future but formal education will never disappear because in occupations where lives are at stake, informal approaches raise the risks and that may not be good for anyone.

This is a pondering more than anything as I am an advocate of informal or as I like to call it "unstructured" learning but I still can think of too many examples where informal is not appropriate.