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More Curious Learning

Learning Rebels

.” Sometimes it’s HR leadership, or business leadership or even clients who are demanding we implement these myths as truths, our role is not to sit back and blindly smile and nod but to speak up and plant the seeds to thought independence. We should be just as curious about the business for which we work. .

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Learning’s Role in Innovation

CLO Magazine

One realization is that most of the benefits to business are coming increasingly from so-called knowledge work, work that processes information in productive ways. One of the best ways for a CLO to foster innovation is to start internally. The goal was to carry out proofs of concept and pilots,” he said.

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Trends in Learning

Tony Karrer

And the risk is pretty severe as described in the Business of Learning. And you cannot Separate Knowledge Work from Learning. Trends in What L&D Organizations are Doing As a result of these trends, some L&D organizations are looking to social and informal learning. The audience has to be large enough.

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The Tale of Two Cultures

Jay Cross

Most columnists in CLO magazine advocate something they’re sure of. Intuitive knowledge. Intuitive knowledge is what Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman describes in Thinking Fast and Slow as System 1. Intuitive knowledge works with patterns; it knows no words. So what does this have to do with a CLO?

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Study: Enhanced Employee Development Needed in 2013

CLO Magazine

10 CEB, a member-based advisory company, has released its annual “Executive Guidance” report, which indicates that the majority of executives are seeking performance gains of 20 percent from their employees to achieve business goals in 2013. — Dec. Source: CEB

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Why You Should Embrace The Gig Economy For Strategic Advantage

EI Design

Gig economy is the buzzword referring to a work environment that supports short-term contracts, often with individuals working virtually together regardless of physical location. This new paradigm is optimized for knowledge work, like L&D. Invariably, there are down-times when there is less work to do.

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Workscaping, part 1 of n

Jay Cross

T oday CLO magazine’s Deanne Hartley interviewed me for an upcoming story about micro-learning. In time, the words will migrate into the Working Smarter unbook. Working smarter is the key to sustainability and perpetual improvement. Knowledge work and learning to work smarter are becoming indistinguishable.