Posted on October 31st, 2011 by Harold Jarche
TweetThe future should be networked, writes Jeremy Rifkin in The Third Industrial Revolution. He sees the next industrial age, one bridging industrialism to continental collaboration as the most feasible post-carbon future. This era of networked energy will be based on 5 pillars, all essential for a successful transition: shift to renewable energy shift buildings to [...]
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Posted on October 28th, 2011 by Harold Jarche
Tweet Here are some of the insights and ideas that were shared via Twitter this past week. Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face ~ Mike Tyson – via @DickBeveridge Working Wikily: “It is ultimately to everyone’s benefit when we see ourselves as a node within a network …” Say goodbye to [...]
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Posted on October 26th, 2011 by Harold Jarche
TweetHighlights from Skills for Learning & Development Professionals (an article I wrote for T&D Magazine in 2008). My experiences over the past three years have shown that these skills are still necessary in the workplace. Attitude: Accepting that we will never know everything, but that others may be able to help, is the first step [...]
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Posted on October 25th, 2011 by Harold Jarche
Tweet This graphic is part of the Seek-Sense-Share PKM model and is based on Five forms of filtering by Tim Kastelle. Here’s a review of the five forms. Naive filtering is what too often happens in our knowledge searching. It’s like prairie-dogging, or standing up in your cubicle and asking those close to you for advice. [...]
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Posted on October 24th, 2011 by Harold Jarche
TweetI was asked by Ryan McClure, a regular reader of this blog, to “have a go at the fear of change by addressing it directly“. He was referring to situations where senior executives seem to be on a different plane of reality. For example: The CEO who doesn’t see the value of social networks and [...]
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Posted on October 22nd, 2011 by Harold Jarche
TweetA book that influenced many of my opinions on education is Kieran Egan’s, The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape our Understanding. Egan says that Western education is based on three incompatible ideas: Education as Socialization (age cohorts, class groupings, team sports) Education as learning about Truth & Reality, based on Plato (varied subjects, academic [...]
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Posted on October 21st, 2011 by Harold Jarche
TweetHere are some of the observations and insights shared via Twitter this past week. In a Complex World, Continuous Learning & Simple Truths Prevail by @CharlesJennings Despite the sophistication, the big brains and the resources available to the traders and executives in Lehmann Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and the rest, it appears they failed [...]
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Posted on October 19th, 2011 by Harold Jarche
TweetMy blog acts as part of my outboard brain. It’s where I can rough out ideas. Narrating my work in public helps keep me connected to reality. I connect to my other web media from my blog. Bookmarks, photos and activity streams may change, but my blog is home base. I search my blog almost daily, [...]
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Posted on October 19th, 2011 by Harold Jarche
TweetThe Dachis Group’s latest XPLANATiON of the attributes of a socially optimized business is a pretty good answer to the question, “What is social business?” Looking just at the key differences in the info-graphic, I’d like to dig into “Why” these differences are necessary: Greater acceptance of risks & failures: This is how complex problems [...]
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Posted on October 18th, 2011 by Harold Jarche
TweetEven five years ago it was not the norm to work at a distance. Employers wanted to keep workers on-site, when it made no sense, as this post from 2005 noted: virtual work, but we need you onsite. Virtual work is no longer limited to mostly free-agents, as many salaried employees today work at least [...]
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