TweetHere are some of the things I learned via Twitter this past week. So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads. Dr. Seuss; via @nancyrubin @GregoryLent : “We are shipping factories, jobs and wealth overseas so rapidly that it is hard to even comprehend [...]
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TweetWhen I was introduced to Charles Jennings’ C-Curve for learning & development (L&D) I wrote about it in the transition to networked accountability. Charles’ C-Curve is a model in practice, based on his experience as CLO of Reuters. I see a parallel between this migration of the L&D department and the social order necessary to [...]
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TweetRichard Florida’s Creative Class blog reports that certain areas of the USA have a much higher use of social media than others. There are significant differences between California and Oklahoma, for example. Check out the map of the American Spiky Social Network. The level of geographic concentration is pronounced, though the leading social media metros [...]
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TweetAndrew Cerniglia has an excellent article that weaves complexity, cynefin and the classroom together. It is worth the read for anyone in the teaching profession. I became interested in complexity as I moved outside the institutional/corporate walls and was able to reflect more on how our systems work. The observation that simple work is being [...]
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TweetFrom the annual report of the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation [my emphasis]: Large amounts of public funding are available for researchers to get started. Large amounts of capital are also available for companies when they reach their growth stage, after they have taken flight. Banks make loans and, and stock markets offer IPO’s. What about [...]
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Tweet“In the period ahead of us, more important than advances in computer design will be the advances we can make in our understanding of human information processing – of thinking, problem solving, and decision making…” ~ Herbert Simon, Economics Nobel-prize winner (1968) The World Wide Web is changing how many of us do our work [...]
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TweetHere are some of the things I learned via Twitter this past week: Benoit Mandelbrot died this week: Why Mandelbrot matters “the market is not rational at all”: “A few fund managers have experimented with these concepts [of price dependence, whatever that is, and volatility]. They often call it chaos theory – though strictly speaking [...]
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TweetI’ve discussed this table before, but I’d like to put all the links together to highlight what we need to do with our organizations and structures to deal with complexity. From the evolving social organization we developed this table to show the differences between three archetypal organizations. Simplicity Complication Complexity Organizational Theory Knowledge-Based View Learning [...]
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TweetLet me say just two words about The New Social Learning by Marcia Conner & Tony Bingham – buy it. OK, that’s for people who want it short and sweet. Let me add a bit of explanation. This book covers not only the why of social media for learning but also the how, with plenty [...]
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TweetImagine a conference room in a convention centre in some metropolitan area [I'm sure you can]. It’s just after lunch and you’re stuffed on hotel food and wired from half a dozen cups of barely drinkable coffee. This morning you survived three presentations, each consisting of PowerPoint slides (at least Keynote slides have better default [...]
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