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50 Posts and Articles that Made Me Think in 2011

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Inspired by JaneHart’s Top100 Articles of 2011 , I thought I should put down at least the top 50 thathas made me reflect and ponder in the past one year, has changed the way I dothings and shaped quite a bit of my work-life decisions. I have divided them across five categories for easy reference.

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Context is King: Excerpts from posts and articles - Part I

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Then a tweet by @sumeet_moghe on the same topic today prompted me to put up excerpts of the articles and posts I have been reading here. For the paste one week or so, I have been reading up on the importance of context as opposed to content. Context is King " is fast becoming a mantra; hence my focused reading on the topic.

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Exceptions are the new normal

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Sameer Patel in the same piece references an HBR article byAdrian Cott called AreScorecards and Metrics Killing Employee Engagement? One of the paragraphsin the article states: “Rules are comfort food for management. Whenrules limit these abilities, then we run the risk of inefficiency, unsatisfiedcustomers and unsolved issues.

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2010 in Retrospect: Top Few Blogs and Books

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This is a quick recap and a list of the posts, articles, and books that have shaped my thinking, provided me with insights and supported or challenged my assumptions. To make it slightly easy for myself, I have divided the list into two parts—1) posts and articles and 2) books. Posts and Articles 1.

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Building learning organizations require a paradigm shift!

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The above is an excerpt from the article Selling Up, Selling Down by Bob Mosher. This article reminded me of Harold Jarche 's post, You need the right lever to move an organization. He summarizes Klaus Wittkuhn article on Performance Improvement and writes: A key concept in the article is that you cannot engineer human performance.

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SMART Goals in a SMAC World

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In this context, trying to pre-define rigid goals can only lead to disaster and to being blindsided, as Rohini Venkatraman very aptly points out in the article. Looking forward to writing and conversing with my community once again. Predictability is giving way to ambiguity, uncertainty and volatility. IMHO, perhaps not!

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MOOCs in the Workplace and Heutagogy

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Related articles I Failed My Online Course - But Learned A Lot About Internet Education Georgia Tech Offers MOOC Master?s Related articles' s Through Udacity MOOCs: High-tech hype, or the future of education? > > Sacramento-area professors and more chime in on massive open online courses.