TweetHere are some of the things I learned via Twitter this past week. “In this day and age, if you’re not confused, you’re not thinking clearly.” ~ Burt Mannis – via @mariogastaldi “I don’t have to attend every argument I’m invited to. ~Author Unknown” via @denniscallahan @vernaalle: “Good luck = accident. Good management = control [...]
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TweetI found many quotes this past year, especially via Twitter. Here are most of them, all together (this way I’ll be able to find them all when I want to use them). #NetworkLearning Life via @VasilyKomarov RT @nickthinker: Those who can lead an inexpensive (low cost) life and appreciate the simple and free things are [...]
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Tweet I’m in the business of helping organizations work smarter. What does that mean? Our industrial and information age is nearing an end as we transition into an era where creativity becomes the most important element in our economy. We are also living in a more complex time as traditional disciplines blur and as information [...]
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TweetHere are some of the things I learned via Twitter this past week. Business is nothing but “Social Networks” by @sig Adding “social” as a layer onto a rigid structure created pre-IT will never do it. E 2.0 or it’s new name, “social business”, is commendable but a blind alley, you have to focus on [...]
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TweetOver the past year, I’ve posted 225 articles here, some popular, some a bit controversial and some ignored (but still useful for my own learning). Here are some posts that resonated with readers. Two posts, A Framework for Social Learning in the Enterprise (February) and The Evolving Social Organization (August), were popular, as was the white [...]
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TweetMost of us have seen those great teamwork motivational posters and almost every job description includes teamwork as a critical competency. Teamwork is over-rated, in my opinion. It can be a smoke screen for office bullies to coerce fellow workers. The economic stick often hangs over the team; “be a team player or lose your [...]
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TweetAs you may have noticed, this has been a busy week. I flew to Maastricht, NL last weekend, via London and Brussels; a 24 hour trip. The highlight of getting to the working smarter event with Tulser was a short but enjoyable stop in Brussels with Christian De Neef who met me at the airport [...]
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TweetIt was a busy week, so I didn’t learn a lot via Twitter, though much through conversation with some interesting people. BRP (Barely Repeatable Processes) ‘Social Learning & Exception Handling‘ @lirons via @jonhusband We know that most learning in the workplace is informal. Most observers put it at around 80%. Recently, John Hagel and John Seeley Brown contended that ”as [...]
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TweetFor past two days, the Internet Time Alliance has been working with Tulser [a play on the word "RESULT"] in Maastricht, NL, focused on how organizations can work smarter by integrating working and learning. Jos and Vivian, the co-owners of Tulser, have created a successful company by getting out of the training business, which was profitable [...]
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TweetHere are some of the things I learned via Twitter this past week: This tweet of mine has become rather popular in less than a day: Knowledge workers of the world, Collaborate! You have nothing to lose but your Managers! & some other quotes: “Organizations not engaged in real-time sensemaking are going to find themselves [...]
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