The twenty-tens have come to a blistering end. It’s been a wild ten years!
We started the decade with Prince William and Kate Middleton announcing their engagement and we ended the decade with the first ever image of a black hole!
It’s fair to say that a few things happened in between…
Join us as we dust down the official Growth Engineering time-machine, charge it with 1.21 gigawatts of power, and take a flight back through the highs and lows of the twenty-tens!
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Our Top Blog of the Decade: Improve your Organizational Culture: 10 Quick Tips
This popular article has nearly 60,000 hits! It delves into the idea of company culture and explores the importance of good company culture for everybody. On top of this, we list ten quick tips to boost your company culture. No wonder it was such a hit!
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The Most Streamed Artist of the Decade:
With over 28 billion streams on Spotify, the most streamed artist of the decade is… Drake! (We’re still not sure what a hotline bling is…)
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Our Top Video of the Decade: What is the Forgetting Curve?
That’s right, Ebbinghaus’ popularity shows no sign of slowing! It was only released in 2018, but our Forgetting Curve video has racked up nearly 30,000 hits already!
You can watch the masterpiece below!
In Culture
The Top Film of the Decade:
The top-grossing film of the decade was… Avengers Endgame (2019). It made $2.798 billion at the box office! It’s nearly as popular as our Ebbinghaus Video!
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Our Top Whitepaper: Behaviour Change in the Workplace.
This box office smash was such a hit because we uncovered the neuroscience, educational psychology and pioneering cognitive research behind behaviour change.
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The Top Selling Book of the Decade: 50 Shades of Grey – E.L James
Nobody at Growth Engineering claims to have ever read the book, but we’re pretty sure it’s about a young lady who craved more excitement from her Learning Management System and so ventured out on an exciting journey of serious games.
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Our Top Tip Sheet: Your 70:20:10 Model Tip Sheet
This popular guide examines the ins and outs of the 70:20:10 model. The reason it was such a success? Because you can learn how to get the most from the experts in your team, hold onto organisational knowledge and get more from your training programme.
In Culture
The Most Streamed Song of the Decade:
Ed Sheeran – Shape of You (was it really going to be anything else?)
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Our Top Infographic: Appetite for Instruction:
Our visual exploration of app-based learning was a favourite! It’s packed with stats and information that argue why learning apps are the best thing to happen since One Direction won The X-Factor in 2010. Is it time to ditch the books and open up an app?
Other Worthy Mentions of the Twenty-Tens…
If you didn’t do the bottle cap challenge, the bird box challenge, the floor is lava challenge, the water bottle challenge, the ice bucket challenge, the mannequin challenge, the Harlem shake, floss, dab or plank, then were you even a part of the twenty-tens?
This decade also saw the world population hit 7 billion and the rescue 33 Chilean miners, the London Olympics and Felix Baumgartner’s mind-blowing leap from space!
Final Words
The past 10 years have seen major changes in Learning and Development. AR and VR use has soared, the use of learning apps has become widespread and social learning features are now a highly sought-after feature on any Learning Management System.
But the 2020s will be even more exciting. The developments Growth Engineering have in store will blow your mind! The 2020s are set to be the best decade yet!
