Posted on March 31st, 2011 by Harold Jarche
TweetYesterday we hosted a conversation on social learning and working smarter, facilitated by the folks at Citrix and the eLearning Guild. We all enjoyed the hour long session and participants will be sent the link to the recording by Citrix. In Jane’s social learning community a few comments arose about the lack of interaction. I [...]
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Posted on March 29th, 2011 by Harold Jarche
TweetIt seems that everybody wants an easy solution. They want best practices and case studies they can copy. They don’t want to do the hard work of learning for themselves. They want a cookie-cutter solution. Well there aren’t any. Case studies abound in business and many sell for a significant amount. Other than for general [...]
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Posted on March 25th, 2011 by Harold Jarche
Tweet You read this blog, why not see the movie by the same name? [I have no affiliation with the film, though I like the title and enjoyed it] Life in perpetual Beta – Director’s Cut is now available for purchase. Produced by Melissa Pierce @melissapierce and released this month, the documentary covers the effects [...]
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Posted on March 25th, 2011 by Harold Jarche
TweetHere are some of the things I learned via Twitter this past week. QUOTES “Your brain is most intelligent when you don’t instruct it on what to do” ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb – via @KareAnderson @adriarichards: “You do a disservice to entire STEM [science, technology, engineering, mathematics] community when you don’t think about bridging the [...]
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Posted on March 24th, 2011 by Harold Jarche
TweetMy ongoing conversation with Michael Cook continues (Organizational Development Talks: OrgDevTalk), with these thoughts: Harold: With the delays that seem to be following each of your recent responses to me you may be thinking I have fallen through the web someplace and cannot find my way back. Actually, nothing could be further from the truth, although I [...]
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Posted on March 23rd, 2011 by Harold Jarche
TweetThe other day I was at the university dining hall, waiting at the cashier’s counter. Several students came through and swiped their cards. One student was carrying her hand bag and was told that she couldn’t come in with it. [I later found out that hand bags and back packs must be left in a [...]
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Posted on March 22nd, 2011 by Harold Jarche
TweetWhen I discussed Emergent Value, some very good comments ensued, from Jon Husband, Gordon Ross, Peg Boyles, Ollie Gardener and Monika Hardy. This image was my first attempt to show how real value creation happens at the edge of organizations and requires different management and communications practices. Social networks, collaboration and cooperation must be the [...]
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Posted on March 21st, 2011 by Harold Jarche
TweetOur NetWorkShop on Saturday was a great success and I think everyone left with a better understanding of networks, as well as some ideas for future pursuit. One main message that came through early in the workshop is that you cannot manage a network. That’s probably the biggest barrier to Net Work in most organizations. [...]
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Posted on March 18th, 2011 by Harold Jarche
TweetHere is some of what I learned via Twitter this past week. QUOTES The Internet: “The private interests of all have to be subsumed to the public good.” – by @robpatrob @Euan “We depersonalise business so it doesn’t get messy. Instead it gets dysfunctional.” Leadership Freak: “If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance [...]
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Posted on March 16th, 2011 by Harold Jarche
TweetMany of the important issues that face our society are complex and require a good knowledge of science. Yesterday, I explained some of what I’ve been trying to learn about nuclear fission and power generation. Understanding how people learn and how we can integrate learning into work is a prime professional interest of mine. More [...]
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