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Eleni Papadakis, executive director of Washington State's workforce Training and Education Board (and a member of ASTDps's Employee Learning Week Advisory Board) reports a startling statistic on her blog.

Addressing the need of "those adult workers who have not gone beyond high school and are unable to find and hold a family-wage job," Papadakis observes as follows:

Kevin Oakes, one of our region's high-profile WLP thought leaders (and a member of the ASTDps Employee Learning Week Advisory Board) has written a much needed, sobering account of the state of evaluation research in our field today. 

Dick Brass, a former vice president at Redmond-based, global software giant Microsoft, recently issued a grim forecast about the company's future on the New York Times op-ed pages:

"... while the company has had a truly amazing past and an enviably prosperous present, unless it regains its creative spark, it’s an open question whether it has much of a future."

If you have been in the WLP profession for any length of time, you are likely to have encountered one of those lists about what motivates workers. The lists are particularly important in leadership development work to help managers and supervisors overcome the all-too-prevalent, simplistic and naive notion that money is the prime motivator at work.