Trust me on this.

July 11, 2010

Lessons from fifty years ago!

Some will come and some will go
We shall surely pass
When the one that left us here
Returns for us at last
We are but a moment’s sunlight
Fading in the grass
C’mon people now,
Smile on your brother
Ev’rybody get together
Try and love one another right now
(Stephen Stills)

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Straw Men

July 8, 2010

Lots of straw men live on the web.
Wikipedia: “A straw man argument is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent’s position. To ‘attack a straw man is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by substituting a superficially similar yet weaker proposition (the “straw man”), and refuting it, [...]

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Skunkworks for innovation

June 30, 2010

From Kevin Kelly:
Originally posted in New Rules
Because skill guilds constrain…
…(and defend) an organization, it is often far easier to start a new organization than to change a successful old one.
This is a major reason why the network economy is rich in start-ups. Starting new is a less risky way to assemble an appropriate new set of [...]

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Gurteen Knowledge Letter celebrates 10th birthday

June 25, 2010

David Gurteen has written his “Knowledge Letter” every month for the last ten years. 120 issues! Here’s proof.
I’ve followed David’s adventures in Knowledge Management for years. It’s one of the few periodicals I let into my e-mailbox. Take a look. David’s site also provides reviews of KM books, biographies of thought leaders, and more. It’s [...]

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Open social learning

June 23, 2010

Four-minute interview with Jay at VI International Seminar of the UNESCO chair in e-Learning on “Open Social Learning”, of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona

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Ironic “push training” photo

June 20, 2010

When I shot this photo in North Berwick, Scotland, nearly twenty years ago, I wanted to capture the concept of closing shop to do training.
Only yesterday did I notice the PUSH sign on the door. Push training, indeed. The opposite of Pull learning that is merged into workflow.

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Dan Pink: what motivates people

June 14, 2010

This short video is simply awesome.

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May – June 15 Great Ones

June 14, 2010

Best of Informal Learning Flow
May 1, 2010 to June 14, 2010
The following are the top items from featured sources based on social signals.

12 Things Good Bosses Believe- HarvardBusiness.org, May 28, 2010
What is data science?- OReilly Radar, June 2, 2010
10 techniques to massively increase retention- Donald Clark Plan B, May 28, 2010
Wikipedia – Explained By Common [...]

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Brain Rules & learning

June 13, 2010

Neuroscientists have figured out a lot about how the brain works in the time since the fMRI was invented 18 years ago. A developmental molecular biologist named John Medina has summarized many of these finding as they relate to learning in a marvellous book and multimedia site entitled Brain Rules.
Many of Medina’s rules impact how [...]

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L&D Suicide?

June 13, 2010

The New Forest in the south east of England is “new” because it was planted in 1079 by William the Conqueror. Riding through the Forest with my colleague Charles Jennings got me thinking long term. I realized I’d been giving some clients and readers bad advice.
The New Forest
I’d been telling companies stuck in the industrial [...]

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