Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Yesterday morning I flew from Bilbao to London, changed terminals at Heathrow, and flew from London to Rome. Twenty minutes after landing, I was online from the back seat of Robin Good’s car, taking part in Learntec in Karlsruhe, Germany. Robin interviewed me while we waited for my session at Learntec to come alive. Once we got going, I engaged in an online conversation with Nancy White, Dave Cornier, and Heike Philp as if we were in adjoining rooms, which felt odd since I was actually in

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Appearing in today’s issue of Axiom News, Building Better Organizations : Better to begin from positive assumptions about employees. by Michelle Strutzenberger. Jay Cross, thought leader in the field of self-directed learning in the workplace, says promoting individual strengths is at the heart of his philosophy. “Empowering individuals to learn through discovery how to lead from their strengths is a major fulcrum for my work,” says Cross, who has written extensively on the subject of self

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 31, 2009

Jay’s column on Effectiveness, CLO magazine , February 2009. The dawn of a new age. If you’re looking for a way to weather the economic downturn, the first thing you need to do is realize that it’s a permanent climate change, not a passing storm. What we are experiencing today is fundamental. The industrial age is in its death throes, making way for the unfolding of the network age.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

At an online conversation at Learntec last Wednesday, I described a few things I had learned about a networked culture that sustained itself again all odds for tens of thousands of years. By dedicating more than half of their resources to intangibles such as learning, relationships, and the technology of eco-farming, the Aborigines of Australia created a society without war, crime, poverty, or taxes.

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