What LinkedIn's Acquisition Of Lynda Means For Talent Management

You may have already heard that LinkedIn recently bought Lynda for $1.5 billion. For those of your not familiar with Lynda, it is a platform that provides online courses similar to Coursera and Udemy. You can access thousands of courses on all sorts of different topics and pretty much learn any skill that you want. Not too long ago, I did a podcast interview with the chief human resources officer at LinkedIn, Pat Wadors, (who is also speaking at our Future of Work Forum on April 29th in San Francisco). We had a long conversation about the future of HR so it's very interesting to see this latest development. There are some really great posts that have been written about this, such as this one by Josh Bersin, but I wanted to share my insights. I think this is a huge move — a “genius” move for Linkedin.