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What is the Important Work?

Clark Quinn

When you look at the changes going on in society, and the implications for business, you realize that there are some significant changes going on. Not surprisingly for regular readers, I think that the nature of work is changing. The success factor for businesses will be, increasingly, the ability to: continually innovate.

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More Curious Learning

Learning Rebels

I suppose it will take bigger brains that mine to figure out why people just accept what they are told or what they believe as final word, regardless of facts and data. Those types of debates are good for the brain, it feeds the mind. We should be just as curious about the business for which we work. .

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The Tale of Two Cultures

Jay Cross

Intuitive knowledge is what Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman describes in Thinking Fast and Slow as System 1. It’s the province of the emotional brain. Intuitive knowledge works with patterns; it knows no words. Rational knowledge. Rational knowledge is the opposite of Intuitive knowledge.

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The Tale of Two Cultures

Jay Cross

Intuitive knowledge is what Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman describes in Thinking Fast and Slow as System 1. It’s the province of the emotional brain. Intuitive knowledge works with patterns; it knows no words. Rational knowledge. Rational knowledge is the opposite of Intuitive knowledge.

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Social Learning doesn’t mean what you think it does: PART TWO

Jane Hart

The only system that CAN manage or measure an individual’s learning is their own brain! But at the end of the day it will be about providing the right solution for the business/learning problem in hand – not just throwing a training solution at the problem. So we need to approach measuring success in a very different way.

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Unbook update

Jay Cross

My unbook, Working Smarter: Boosting Brainpower for Fun & Profit , is now on sale at Amazon for $14. This is a book for business managers about applying common sense to the task of building workforces that improve performance naturally, without prodding.

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Learned about Learning in 2009

Tony Karrer

During the year, I’ve had fantastic conversations through LearnTrends around SharePoint , Examples and Tour of Different Kinds of eLearning , Social Learning , and the Business of Learning. Each of these allowed me to fast forward my learning and share knowledge effectively. However, during 2009, I had a bit of an aha moment.