Harold,

You have summarized the current situation very well in this article. I looked at Charles Handy's presentation on democracy and capitalism, and then followed up with another video, where he presented the plenary session for a Drucker conference a few years later. It would appear that his message has not wavered.

For the past few years, I've thought I must be mad, doing what I'm doing, focusing on job skills training for production workers, and providing a vehicle for them to develop competence and job mastery.

Sure, there are corporate reasons for embarking on the courses of action I recommend, but developing employee skills is still an essential component to achieving corporate results.

That's my rationale for developing disruptive technologies and systems that democratize learning, and give at least some of the responsibility for task training over to those who are the subject matter experts, who often unsung, are truly the muscle behind the organizations they work for.

Thank you for an ensightful article.

Shaun Browne