After-Christmas Sale: Informal Learning

by Jay Cross on January 2, 2010

New Year’s Resolution: Use informal learning to improve organizational performance in 2010.

Informal Learning is on sale at Amazon for $18.18. (List price is $40.)

Informal Learning
Informal Learning: Rediscovering the Natural Pathways That Inspire Innovation and Performance

Read what it’s about:

Chapter Two, A Natural Way of Learning
Chapter Three, Show Me the Money

This book relates the stories of how more than a dozen firms are using informal learning to:

  • Increase sales by Google-izing product knowledge
  • Improve knowledge worker productivity 20% – 30%
  • Transform an organization from near-bankruptcy to record profits
  • Generate fresh ideas and increase innovation
  • Help workers learn to learn for sustainable competitive advantage
  • Improve your own learning and communications skills.
  • Reduce stress, absenteeism, and healthcare costs

Table of Contents

CONCEPTS.

Chapter 1: Out of Time

Chapter 2: A Natural Way of Learning

Chapter 3: Show Me The Money

Chapter 4: Emergence

Chapter 5: Connecting

Chapter 6: Meta-Learning

LEARNERS.

Chapter 7: Learners.

CASES.

Chapter 8: Envisioning.

Chapter 9: Conversation.

Chapter 10: Communities.

Chapter 11: Unblended.

Chapter 12: The Web.

Chapter 13: Grokking.

Chapter 14: Unconferences.

Chapter 15: Just Do It.

I don’t know how long the sale price will last. It’s $18.18 paper or $16.36 as a Kindle download. Buy it.

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