Jay Cross

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Jay Changes Direction

Jay Cross

My book Aha! Learn for Yourself challenges readers to consider where they’ve been in their careers and where they’re headed. I feel obligated to practice what I preach. My career in the learning business is at a turning point. My history by type of learning is below.

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Changing Cultures in Higher Education

Jay Cross

Last week I received a nice surprise in the mail, Changing Cultures in Higher Education (Ulf Daniel Ehlers and Dirk Schneckberg eds.) However, practices of strategic innovation of universities, faculty development, assessment, evaluation and quality assurance have not fully accommodated these changes in technology and teaching.

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Cosmetic change

Jay Cross

Perhaps I should change my name and totally re-invent myself this time around. Just for the hell of it, I shaved off my beard about fifteen minutes ago. When I cut off my beard the summer between my two years at business school, many classmates failed to recognize me.

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Cosmetic change

Jay Cross

Perhaps I should change my name and totally re-invent myself this time around. Just for the hell of it, I shaved off my beard about fifteen minutes ago. When I cut off my beard the summer between my two years at business school, many classmates failed to recognize me.

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How Business Must Change — in 30 seconds

Jay Cross

I covered the waterfront: radical changes in how business is conducted, social learning, informal learning, problems with schools, and economic development. Last month, Rede Globo television in Rio interviewed me for half an hour. Today I received a link to a broadcast which includes an excerpt of what I said.

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13 books on learning, people, organizations, corporate culture, and change

Jay Cross

This morning I conducted a webinar on Making Learning Stick. Funny, isn’t it, that we invest so much to help people learn and so little to help them remember? Lots of what we learn goes down the drain before becoming converted to action. To encourage participation, I gave away my favorite books for making the most of learning.

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Phase change

Jay Cross

The metronome of human progress is swinging exponentially faster. We are leaving the industrial era behind so quickly that even thrill-seekers like me are finding it nauseating. Jiminy Cricket! The Feds seize control of General Motors? My view of what’s going on: We are re-setting our worldview. A new age is dawning.

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