Jay Cross

JANUARY 24, 2013

WHOOPS. I hit the SAVE button prematurely. This ia a post in progress. Stoos (rhymes with close or dose ) is a village located in the municipality of Morschach. It lies at 1,300 metres in the Swiss canton of Schwyz and has about 100 inhabitants. It is used as a small ski resort with a cable car leading to the Fronalpstock. The village itself is car-free and is accessible via a funicular. ( Wikipedia ).

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 20, 2013

. Capitalism’s epicenter and holy shrine, the New York Stock Exchange , has a new owner! A guy in Atlanta bought it. This is like Disney buying the Capitol or the Israelis buying Mecca. Unthinkable. Founded in 1792 by twenty-four brokers under a buttonwood tree at 68 Wall Street, this is where the rules for buying and selling bonds and shares of companies were drawn up and agreed upon.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 26, 2013

Full house (10) for today’s Hangout on Air. I don’t know how many watched on YouTube. We had a good discussion of the Stoos Movement and combining agile with management. Or replacing management with agile. YouTube: Slides from Hangout: Transcript from Hangout: You invited people into the hangout. Peter Isackson. 9:49 AM. Hi Jay. You invited people into the hangout.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 12, 2013

Google+ Hangout on Learning in Organizations. Join us. Email me if you can’t get in. jaycross@internettime.com https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c6aoo9opm5v8cu88r6setgorar0?authkey=COi-8rTojdW9GQ …. Topics: How to use Google+ to support learning. Brief summary of the impact of Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow. Best books you’ve read recently.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 24, 2013

1-800-GOT-JUNK (“Junk”) came by Internet Time Lab to pick up 24 months of trash. The two thirty-somethings who showed up were pleasant, hard-working, and efficient. One fellow liked his job because it fix his life as a musician. For seven years, he has worked at Junk six months and then taken off to play music for six months. “It works for me; it works for them.” The other fellow recently graduated from Cal Berkeley; he was happy to have any job.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 23, 2013

I just got back from the first local member meeting of the Greater Good Science Center here in Berkeley. Started by a grant a dozen years ago, Greater Good was a print magazine. The founders imagined ”an organization that would identify the roots of healthy relationships and flourishing individuals, exploring qualities such as compassion, altruism, respect, trust, tolerance, and wisdom.” The print magazine morphed into a web publication , which appears to be its major outreach progr

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 19, 2013

Know what this is? Back in the age of paper, notebook-hole punches were more prevalent than flip charts. We were naive enough to believe we could capture tacit know-how on sheets of paper in three-ring binders. Even if the main part was already punched, you had to punch the addendum, errata, schedule changes, and so on by yourself. In those days, people took binders to classes, where they underlined and highlighted and highlighted the text.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 25, 2013

Dating back 25,000 years, Australia’s Aborigines are the world’s longest-lived culture, despite the harsh conditions of the Australian Continent. By dedicating more than half of their resources to intangibles such as learning, relationships, and the technology of eco-farming, the Aborigines created a society without war, crime, poverty, or taxes.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 18, 2013

A friend of ten years asked, “You write white papers? I didn’t know you wrote white papers.” For vendors? To make them look good? To help sell stuff? Yes, yes, yes. Here’s recent proof, 25 pages on how to implement 70:20:10. “This paper offers a vision of how management — with the help of learning and development (L&D) professionals — can make learning from experience and conversation more effective, complementing formal learning to make the whole program

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 24, 2013

VIA’s Chris Petersen is dead. From an early interview : Suzie: What are some useful tips you can provide people on using their strengths in their daily lives? Chris: Be mindful of what I call strengths occasions, and rise to them. Also, practice, practice, practice. Character Strengths Research.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 1, 2013

I struck up a conversation with a working man at a coffee shop last week. He’s one of the people who keep the phone network up, a veteran Bell-head phone guy. Works on poles and in people’s houses. What do you do? he asked and I said I was an author who writes about how people learn things at work. This fellow hates his job. Management doesn’t appreciate what he does.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 18, 2013

One year ago, twenty management thinkers and agile software gurus met on a mountain top in Stoos, Switzerland, to assess and find alternatives to obsolete leadership practices. We concluded with this communiqu é : Reflecting on leadership in organizations today, we find ourselves in a bit of a mess. We see reliance on linear, mechanistic thinking, companies focusing more on stock price than delighting customers, and knowledge workers whose voices are ignored by the bosses who direct them.

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