Jay Cross

JUNE 23, 2011

As a poet, entrepreneur, and new media visionary, Tom Mandel peers deeper into the future than most of us. When Tom and I caught up with one another in Asheville, North Carolina, last week, he explained why being alert to serendipity is more important than ever.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 22, 2011

At the International Conference on eLearning in the Workplace , I talked with Sid Slover, the founder of Learn It Live. In this four-minute excerpt you’ll hear my take on the failure of traditional training, evidence that informal learning works, living in a world of omnipresent information, pattern recognition, network lifelines, natural learning, tech fading into the background, the demise of university teaching, corporations that don’t get it, academics that don’t get it, an

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Jay Cross

JUNE 24, 2011

Lots of organizations I speak with are concerned about onboarding , that is, bringing new people into the fold, socializing them, and getting them up to speed. Few people have addressed offboarding , the process of letting people go, yet the benefits from taking a new approach are huge. Kevin Clark is one of the people who has studied — and implemented — a better way.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 21, 2011

Time ain’t what it used to be. More things take place in the world in one of your minutes than in one of your grandmother’s hours. That’s the phenomenon I describe in this brief excerpt from the opening presentation at the I nternational Conference on eLearning in the Workplace two weeks ago in New York. At least with monetary inflation, you can look up what a dollar was worth at a given time in the past.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 23, 2011

While searching for something else, I happened upon this conversation from last fall with Dave Gray about the notion of working smarter.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 20, 2011

Background. For the past two years, I have been writing and publishing an unbook entitled Working Smarter. Six versions have been published in that time, the latest being The Working Smarter Fieldbook 2011. Unbooks are printed on demand; they change when the author has something new to say. By definition, unbooks are in perpetual beta. Several months ago I decided to write a book about working smarter for managers and executives.

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