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From Cube Farm to Open Office

The Performance Improvement Blog

Living in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the “attitude capital of the world”, I was interested to read in the June issue of the Ann Arbor Observer that my fair city is the birthplace of the office cube farm. Knowledge workers can be anywhere and still be able to do most of their tasks. They don’t need a cubicle.

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The Skills Gap –  The Correlation Between Training & the Skills Gap – Part III

Jigsaw Interactive

Companies that are willing to hire people with the right intelligence, background, attitude, values, and instincts and train them for specific skills don’t need to worry about a skills gap. Consider the following statistics : 74% of workers want to learn new skills. The same idea holds true for upskilling employees when things change.

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Internet culture

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

I expect attitudes like Internet values to underpin exemplary corporate learning in the future. In a knowledge era, workers are the means of production. Knowledge workers do their best when challenged to figure things out for themselves. Here are nine more to ponder. Peer power : Networks subvert hierarchy.

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Quick Wins

Clark Quinn

is soooo much less about technology than about culture (Duh Mark, I know). I agree with Mark that there are fairly sizable organizational culture aspects to enterprise adoption of enterprise 2.0 / web 2.0 / eLearning 2.0. I think Mark missed the bigger barriers of Changing Knowledge Worker Attitudes and the work literacy gap.

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Quick Wins

Tony Karrer

is soooo much less about technology than about culture (Duh Mark, I know). I agree with Mark that there are fairly sizable organizational culture aspects to enterprise adoption of enterprise 2.0 / web 2.0 / eLearning 2.0. I think Mark missed the bigger barriers of Changing Knowledge Worker Attitudes and the work literacy gap.

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The Role of Training in the Wider Productivity Puzzle

OpenSesame

Skills have a major bearing on workforce productivity – especially in developed economies where the majority of employees are knowledge workers. It also resonates with what most of us knowledge workers feel – that there’s never enough time for anything, let alone optional training with its long-term (i.e.

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Imitating Virtuous Behaviors

CLO Magazine

Cultivating virtue is a valuable leadership development practice that has implications not only for learning, but for retention and organizational culture. One of the report’s key findings is that top managers’ actions drive an ethical culture in a company and have a significant impact on outcomes.