Harold Jarche

TweetIn what BP’s oil spill says about management today, the author talks about the need to deal with increasing complexity, concluding: Navigating a business successfully through turbulent times requires the ability to deal with ambiguity, be resilient in the face of adversity, be authentic and have the innovative capacity to anticipate and respond to the unpredictable [...]

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TweetSome things I learned via Twitter this past week. Learning through Practice @charlesjennings – ID – Instructional Design or Interactivity Design in an interconnected world? We need designers who understand that learning comes from experience, practice, conversations and reflection, and are prepared to move away from massaging content into what they see as good instructional [...]

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TweetGeoffrey Moore’s analogy of “crossing the chasm” is that any new technology is quickly adopted by innovators and early adopters, but there is a chasm to cross in order to get the more pragmatic majority to adopt the new technology. For marketing, this is the real challenge – can the new product get widespread acceptance? [...]

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TweetThe Long Tail is one of the most commonly quoted models for business on the Internet: The Long Tail or long tail refers to the statistical property that a larger share of population rests within the tail of a probability distribution than observed under a ‘normal’ or Gaussian distribution. This has gained popularity in recent [...]

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TweetHere are some of the things I learned on Twitter this past week. @nickcharney : “In a field that changes rapidly, there are no experts, only degrees of amateurs.” [Which will make it even more difficult to formalize instruction] The learning opportunity imbalance by Gary Wise Jane Hart: The State of Learning in the Workplace [...]

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TweetWork today (and tomorrow) requires more creativity and less formulaic intelligence and it also requires less of “us”. That’s less of our dedicated, full-time attention, with contract work becoming the new normal: Littler Mendelson, one of the largest employment law firms in the country, predicted in a report last year titled “The Emerging New Workforce” [...]

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TweetTony Bates made these recommendations to the University of New Brunswick, “to foster further development of knowledge-based industries in the province”: 1. Greater incorporation of ICT and other 21st century skills (e.g. independent learning, problem solving) in a wider range of programs and subject disciplines. 2. A gradual move from almost entirely face-to-face courses in [...]

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TweetDan Erwin responded to my last post on the new reality of Automated and Outsourced work. Dan wrote: “There’s a thorough and masterful report that supports all your conclusions.  It’s the result of a study by the research group at the Dallas Fed in 2003, entitled, The Evolution of Work.” The table in the report clearly shows [...]

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TweetAs a result of economic changes, some workers are getting left behind, reports the New York Times: For the last two years, the weak economy has provided an opportunity for employers to do what they would have done anyway: dismiss millions of people — like file clerks, ticket agents and autoworkers — who were displaced [...]

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TweetSome of the things I learned on Twitter this past week. Always worth repeating: “Management is an overhead” by @EskoKilpi The Internet is an extinction-level event for the traditional firm If the (transaction) costs of exchanging value in the society at large go down drastically, the form and logic of economic and organizational entities also [...]

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