ID Reflections

DECEMBER 25, 2010

This is one of those must read books for trainers/learning and development professionals/anyone interested in the phenomenon called learning. However, before I ramble on, I want to clarify that this post is not a book review. More importantly, are those the kind of work that will provide us with the indispensable competitive edge?

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ID Reflections

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Two books I have recently read influence my thoughts in this post. These are The Shift: The Future of Work is Already Here by Dr. Lynda Gratton (a book review coming up soon), and The Second Machine Age by Andrew Mcafee and Erik Brynjolfsson. Most of us do a retrospection of the year gone by, and a future-spection of the year to come.

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ID Reflections

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Hansen in his book Collaboration: How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Create Unity, and Reap Big Results. My Kindle highlights from the book are here. Page in his book The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies talks about the importance of diversity extensively.

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ID Reflections

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

I’ve referenced the model here from Flat World Knowledge book on Organizational Behaviour. I highly recommend this book and others on this site for their clear, concise, well-written and referenced matter. And one can read them for free!

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ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

The subject matter is a book called Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard ! However, when one completes a book that tells you how to change or bring about change and it coincides with your birthday, it does cause you to reflect a little more than usual. So provide crystal clear direction. Today is my birthday.

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ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

The approach taken is still that of “the organization will provide the training I need”. These include: Be able to hold difficult conversations : Kerry Patterson''s book, Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High is a good one to start with. While this seems like a sweeping indictment, it is not meant to be one.

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ID Reflections

JANUARY 9, 2010

I am re-reading Informal Learning by Jay Cross and was going through the resource links he has provided. Apart from the book, which is a must read for anyone interested in the field of learning, the resource links are gold mines of knowledge, information and insights.

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ID Reflections

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

While reading Gary Hamel ’s The Future of Management , this paragraph drew my attention (there are other equally and even more memorable passages in this iconoclastic and must read book) for a reason. I will expand on that shortly but thought it worth citing the paragraph first. This reminded me of an event that took place a few weeks ago.

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ID Reflections

MARCH 8, 2010

Books like Made to Stick , Switch , Naked Conversations , etc., As I mulled over the points, I realized how these parameters can impact all relationships. Effective communication enables information to be distributed to the right sources. This knowledge drives the decision-making process.

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ID Reflections

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

My thoughts felt more scattered than usual.and I wondered if it had to do with the books I was reading. These books have moved and challenged me, made me feel guilty and exhilarated--all at the same time, provided insights, changed how I think and have often left me feeling confused--at many levels.

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 6, 2010

Source: mLearning: The Latest Trends and Why You Should Care A study of Gartner’s 2009 Hype Cycle for emerging technologies reveals the following: In the context of mobile learning, it is interesting to note that e-Book Readers have reached the Peak of Inflated Expectations while Tablet PC is climbing the Slope of Enlightenment.

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 8, 2016

However, we also know that "p redictable” jobs will be the first ones up for automation and robotization as Martin Ford mentions in his book, The Rise of the Robots. I do not have the answer but I have attempted to provide some alternatives to goal setting in this post. The nature of work and projects are changing.

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ID Reflections

JULY 30, 2014

Those deviating from set processes wasted valuable time – their own and others – and were speedily brought to book. Recognizing those with a fixed mindset and providing them with the necessary support and coaching could lead to better performance. Supervision and appraisals were centered on safeguarding conformance.

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ID Reflections

MAY 26, 2019

Leaders have the propensity and are often expected to provide answers in times of great uncertainty and upheaval. I strongly recommend going through and practicing the four levels of listening and conversing defined by Otto Scharmer in his book, The Essentials of Theory U. Staying with Uncertainty ?—?While

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ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Dr. Lynda Gratton in her book, The Shift: The Future of Work is Already Here encapsulates the possibilities and promises of a connected world in this para. This requires enabling people to learn how to learn in the networked world , providing them with the infrastructure and then getting out of their way.

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ID Reflections

OCTOBER 27, 2009

is providing them with capability, with know-how." In the book, he recounts his initial encounter with the Japanese. Nick Milton says about Knowledge : "Knowledge can come from others, it can come from your experience.it is the factor that allows you to take the right decision and do the right thing.

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ID Reflections

OCTOBER 17, 2009

Lately, I have read a few books that reinforce the power of this kind of engagement. You can see the TED talk here: I had recently been to Providence, Rhode Island to visit my friend and had attended the Sunday morning church service with her. One of them being The Back of the Napkin. And he is completely in command.

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ID Reflections

JANUARY 15, 2015

Adaptive over predictive Ruth Clark describes adaptive in relation to expertise in her book Building Expertise: Cognitive Methods for Training and Performance Improvement , and I think it reflects my understanding of Agile philosophy very well. Hansen in his book Collaboration: How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Create Unity, and Reap Big Results.

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ID Reflections

JULY 17, 2014

I am also stimulated and inspired by Clark Quinn’s book mentioned above. Page’s book The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies. It’s a complex book but one that provides plenty of insights.

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ID Reflections

JANUARY 25, 2015

The technological affordances of social and mobile add to the ability to provide an ecosystem of continuous and pervasive learning. Moreover, providing MOOCs on mobile devices further augments interaction and networking thus increasing the participation level. MOOCs also provide opportunities for peer-feedback and group projects.

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ID Reflections

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Thanks to books like Creative Visualization , The Power of Now , Small Victories , and such, I have come to believe -- in principle and seen the effect in practice -- in the power of being able to achieve what we want. I got frustrated with all the books in my "to-read" list that had grown to be a mile long. This was in Jan''14.

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ID Reflections

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

We are curating when we pick the books that will adornour shelves; we are curating when we choose our furniture; the store keeper iscurating when s/he selects and arranges the display. A little reflection reveals that curation is a way of lifefor all of us—we are all curators. How we put our curation skills to use iswhat makes us unique.

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ID Reflections

JANUARY 19, 2015

This will provide the employees with an opportunity to acquire skills and knowledge in their areas of interest beyond the purview of their current roles thus equipping them with new skills, a critical aspect of professional development. can be put together to design a “program”. However, this will require good content curation skills.

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ID Reflections

JUNE 12, 2015

L&D's role will be to enable these communities to form, to function effectively and provide sustained value to the members and to the organization. Dr. Carol Dweck eloquently writes about what growth mindset can achieve in her book, Mindset - The New Psychology of Success. What are the fundamental support required to enable this?

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