Posted on January 25th, 2012 by Harold Jarche
TweetWe can learn a lot from open conversations with trusted colleagues who want to improve their professional expertise. My colleagues have these conversations regularly and I have learned a lot over the past two years that we’ve been together. A professional is anyone who does work that cannot be standardized easily and who continuously welcomes challenges at [...]
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Posted on January 23rd, 2012 by Harold Jarche
TweetThese days it’s more productive to think of organizations as organisms. Managers become stewards of the living. Their role is to energize people, empower teams, foster continuous improvement, develop competence, leverage collective knowledge, coach workers, encourage collaboration, remove barriers to progress, and get rid of obsolete practices. Living systems thrive on values that go far beyond the machine [...]
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Posted on January 19th, 2012 by Harold Jarche
TweetIn social networks we can learn from each other; modelling behaviours, telling stories, and sharing what we know. This may not be highly efficient, but it it can be very effective. You will know you’re in a real community of practice if it changes your practices. Education and training are shaping technologies. They reward successive approximations [...]
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Posted on December 29th, 2011 by Harold Jarche
TweetThis cartoon, by Hugh Macleod of GapingVoid, pretty well sums up my last few years. The Internet has allowed me to self-publish at will and get connected to a growing network of people, several of whom I have had opportunities to collaborate with. There are no more hierarchies between creation and collaboration. We live in a [...]
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Posted on December 22nd, 2011 by Harold Jarche
TweetMy blog functions as my outboard brain, a place to get half-baked ideas out in the open and work on them in public. It’s also a repository of thoughts and notes I use in my daily work. I often refer to a blog post instead of writing the same email a dozen times. However, it [...]
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Posted on November 27th, 2011 by Harold Jarche
TweetOne of the great difficulties in shifting an organization from a hierarchical, command and control structure to a more networked wirearchical one is that you have to work both ends at once. Strategic guidance and high level models are rather abundant; for instance we generally know that organizations should be flatter, information should be democratized [...]
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Posted on November 7th, 2011 by Harold Jarche
TweetLast week I commented that many people in the “learning” field are too absorbed in their own interests and not the businesses they are supporting. Working smarter in the 21st century requires the integration of learning into the workflow. This has become a necessity due to the increased complexity facing today’s networked business. Ericsson’s video, On [...]
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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 9th, 2011 by Harold Jarche
TweetIn organizing for diversity and complexity, I discussed structural changes that are needed in our institutions. Kevin Wheeler has a great slide presentation on leadership in complexity that looks at what is required in such a diverse and complex work world. In the future of leadership development, Kevin describes some new core leadership skill sets [...]
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Posted on September 17th, 2011 by Harold Jarche
TweetWhen we got together as the Internet Time Alliance it was rather obvious that we were not going to be your usual consulting company. We are five principals and one associate, spread across nine time zones, who share a passion for our work. Status quo and cookie cutter solutions are not our business. Jay likens [...]
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