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Mission & Vision: Cornerstones of Strong Company Culture

Dashe & Thomson

billion in yearly revenue—an unprecedented feat for a company founded as recently as 2008. Starbucks, Apple, and Tesla are all examples of extremely successful organizations that represent the best of the best when it comes to design, production, marketing, sales, and operations. Nearly 50 years later, Tesla Inc.

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2008 2009

Tony Karrer

It's always interesting to look back at the past year - 2008, think about what has changed for me during the year, and think about what that means for the next year - 2009. To do my review, I first looked at what I was writing about and what people were reading on my blog in 2008. June 1, 2008 was when Work Literacy Launched.

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Learn Trends 2008 - Free

Tony Karrer

George Siemens , Jay Cross and Tony Karrer have organized the second annual free online conference: Corporate Learning: Trends and Innovation 2008 November 17 - 21, 2008 | Online | Free Last year's conference had two thousand people from all over the world take part in the week-long conference. It's online. And it's free.

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2008 Predictions, Remembrance and Challenges

Kapp Notes

The ASTD Big Question for January is "What are your Predictions for Learning in 2008?" The three questions, now modified for 2008, are: What will you remember most about 2007? What are the biggest challenges for you/us as head into 2008? What are your predictions for 2008? What are your predictions for 2008?

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Ten Predictions for eLearning 2008

Tony Karrer

The Big Question this month are Predictions for Learning in 2008. during 2008. Prediction #2 => Virtual Classroom Tools - Meeting Tool + Second Life Lite A medium size Virtual Classroom / Meeting Tool will announce features in 2008 that are not 3D immersive, but that are more like Mii characters in a 2.5D

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Daily Bookmarks 08/17/2008

Experiencing eLearning

Natalie Kilkenny writes about how much more productive she is as a telecommuter than working in a cube farm and answers the question “How do they know that you’re working when they can’t see you?&#. tags: telecommuting , career , productivity. Working from home « Design for Learning.

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The USA’s training culture leaves them ahead of the UK in terms of productivity

Enterprise Study

However, most UK businesses have yet to reach the point of viewing learning, training and development in the workplace as critical – and, in productivity terms, that leaves the UK trailing other nations where the training culture is more entrenched. The UK productivity gap. Closing the productivity gap. lower than the USA.

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