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DRIVING GREATNESS: LEADERS AS COACHES

PDG

A leader’s responsibility, according to this mindset, is to monitor employees and transmit their knowledge to them in an efficient manner in order to get the desired output. Contrast this with the “greatness mindset” of the more recent knowledge-worker age.

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The Inimitable Jay Cross

ID Reflections

Apart from the fact that I was totally in awe and had to muster the courage to go and speak with him, I think I was expecting a serious individual, the distinguished author of many books who had coined the term “e-learning” and led the thinking in the field of learning. My introduction to Jay had been through his book Informal Learning.

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The key to informal learning is autonomy

Jane Hart

Jay Cross, the author of the 2007 seminal book, Informal Learning, Rediscovering the Natural Pathways that Inspire Innovation and Performance , recently wrote a blog post in which he explained that although there has been a lot of talk about “informal learning” in the last five years, there has been very little action.

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21st Century Workplace Challenges

ID Reflections

The paragraph below taken from Harold Jarche’s post Success depends on who we work with reminded me of a post I had written some time back, the Molotov cocktail = Weak ties x complicated knowledge. Hansen in his book Collaboration: How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Create Unity, and Reap Big Results. I have pasted the quote below: 1.

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Social Learning: what actually is it?

Jane Hart

If you haven’t yet come across The New Social Learning book (by Marcia Conner and Tony Bingham), this is a must-read. It acknowledges that learning happens with and through other people, as a matter of participating in a community, not just by acquiring knowledge.”

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Taking Stock and Making Choices: Working from home and other such stuff

ID Reflections

Work —complex knowledge work requires solitude as well as collaboration. The book revealed me to myself, clarifying why I made some of the choices I did. If anyone reading this is a knowledge worker and is thinking about working from home, read Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's Flow. Are you a knowledge worker working from home?

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Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | July 26, 2019

Mike Taylor

5 reasons your employees aren’t sharing their knowledge. Pop on over for JD’s updated take on why your employees aren’t sharing their knowledge. How to Practice as a Knowledge Worker. Books, Podcasts, Courses: How Full Is Your Bucket? Yo Scenario is a flexible browser-based scenario software for non-linear content.