Jay Cross

JUNE 3, 2009

Last month, immigration officials began hassling me because every square inch of my passport was filled up with stamps and visas. I mailed it to Washington to have extra visa pages inserted. Now I’m sweating bullets because I’m supposed to fly to London on Sunday and my passport is in transit and may not make it on time. Public speaking, like writing, forces me to sharpen my thinking, and that, in turn, improves my coaching and workshop sessions with corporate clients.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 29, 2009

Home Speaker Contact internet time alliance Learnstream Resources Internet Time Blog from Jay Cross and Internet Time Group Charles Schulz Museum by Jay Cross on January 17, 2009 Prompted by an article in the New York Times , we drove an hour north to Santa Rosa to take in an exhibit entitled Schulz’s Beethoven: Schroeder’s Music. In a “Peanuts” strip from the mid-1950s, Charlie Brown walks through the first panel and finds Schroeder sitting in front of an adult-size hi-fi, his ear t

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Jay Cross

JUNE 22, 2009

For my brief stay in Madrid, my guidebook is Top 10 Madrid , from DK Eyewitness Travel. It is excellent, a most useful hip-pocket compendium of maps, things to see, restaurants, foods, shops, neighborhoods, and history, structured as a series of top 10 lists. The book has me thinking in 10’s. Here are my Top Ten Ways Madrid Differs from Berkeley : Independent bookstores are thriving in Madrid.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 21, 2009

I am staying at the Hotel Hi Tech President in Madrid. Don’t follow in my footsteps. There’s a PC in my room; it doesn’t work because no one has installed the HP set-up software. There’s a mini-bar that keeps the drinks lukewarm.The wi-fi is painfully slow. Today I walked the galleries of the Reina Sofia Museum, a staggering collection of beautiful and challenging modern art.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 5, 2009

My unbook, Working Smarter: Boosting Brainpower for Fun & Profit , is now on sale at Amazon for $14. This is a book for business managers about applying common sense to the task of building workforces that improve performance naturally, without prodding. It’s about eliminating training bureaucracy that has failed to keep pace with the times. It’s a new way of looking at how people become competent in their work and fulfilled in their professional lives.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 28, 2009

The July issue of Chief Learning Officer is now available online. It features an article in which Jon Husband and I delve into how to measure the impact of learning in the network era. Productivity in a Networked era: Not Your Father’s ROI. Today’s networked era requires a new way to make investment decisions that incorporates intangible assets and more accurately depicts how value is created.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 26, 2009

In the past three weeks, I have been scanned, patted down, forced to remove my belt and shoes, and asked to wait in line for the privilege, in San Francisco, London, Lisbon, Madrid, and Philadelphia. Collectively, we’re wasting hundreds of millions of dollars on this nonsense, money that could be invested in schools, parks, and public health.

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