Harold Jarche

TweetIn the evolving social organization, I included a table with several descriptive terms, which Amanda Fenton suggested needs to be “unpacked”. Simplicity basic hierarchy Complication bureaucracy Complexity wirearchy Organizational Theory Knowledge-Based View Learning Organization Value Networks Attractors Stakeholders (vision) Shareholders (wealth) Clients (service) Growth Model Internal Mergers & Acquisitions Ecosystem Knowledge Acquisition Formal Training Performance [...]

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TweetHere are some of the things I learned via Twitter this past week: QUOTES via @CharlesHGreen “When you dig yourself into a hole, first, stop digging.” up by your bootstraps via @HealthCareerPro “I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.” ~ Winston Churchill. @EskoKilpi “The everyday live interactions we [...]

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TweetCo-author: Thierry deBaillon – @tdebaillon Simplicity and the Enterprise Most companies start simple, with a few people gathering together around an idea. For small companies, decision-making, task assignments and direct interaction with clients are rather straightforward.  With growth, the simplicity ends. As every entrepreneur knows, the initial growth of a company is often synonymous with [...]

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TweetGeorge Siemens calls it information management (what I describe as PKM). I specifically use the term information instead of knowledge. Our encounter with information is one of sensemaking and wayfinding. We encounter a continual flow of information – most of it will never become “knowledge”. From my perspective, the knowledge aspect of PKM is an [...]

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TweetUpdate: This course was cancelled and is re-scheduled for 1 April 2011. If interested, please contact the iSchool and let them know. I am also available for private workshops. I’m offering a one-day course at the iSchool Institute (University of Toronto). “In the period ahead of us, more important than advances in computer design will [...]

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TweetHere are some of the things I learned on Twitter this past week. QUOTES “Anything you think is either unoriginal, wrong or both” @courosa Look at a single Twitter page. Think about prior knowledge / literacies needed to decode that page. RTs. links. voice. events. #MediaLiteracy @Dave_Ferguson My comment to @rnantel : fixing most performance [...]

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TweetI’ve often said that learning and working are becoming the same thing in our hyper-connected workplaces. As a free-agent there are great opportunities to integrate work and learning and that is by thinking of marketing as education, both for you and your clients. Since a one-person business doesn’t have separate marketing and training departments, there’s [...]

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TweetRobert Kelley, in How to be a Star at Work, describes how tacit, or implicit, knowledge has come to dominate the knowledge economy: What percentage of the knowledge you need to do your job is stored in your own mind? Or put another way: What percentage of your time do you spend reaching out to [...]

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TweetHere are some of the things I learned via Twitter this past week. Quote of the Week: @hrheingold “Free, open, multimedia university of tomorrow is here now, technically. Knowing how to self-organize learning with others is another matter” via @nancyrubin Collaboration – If it Were That Easy We Would all Do It – Well Five [...]

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TweetA while back, Charles Green responded to my post about the knowledge economy being a trust economy: Your title captures an important insight; the knowledge economy allows significant distribution of nodes of knowledge, means of production, etc. To get the value of that, resources have to be distributed. If people can’t figure out how to [...]

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