Want to know the single-greatest factor that determines the success of a professional learning experience? It has much less to do with the learner, or the curriculum, than it does the organization to which the learner returns.

The counter-cultural practices of Google X, Amazon, and 3M demonstrate that public celebration reinforces organizational values, especially when those values run contrary to conventional business rules.

Examples from Google X, Amazon, and even 3M all demonstrate that public ceremony reinforces organizational values, especially when those values run contrary to conventional business rules.