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Uncertainty is the key to unlocking opportunity

CLO Magazine

zooming down a sun-drenched Hawaii highway behind the wheel of a cherry red Ferrari 308 GTS after another successful caper with your best buds T.C. Embracing uncertainty means you’ve slowed down, engaged with an idea or troubling piece of information and asked questions about it. Jim Woolsey is a prime example.

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Sun, Elite, and the future

Jay Cross

At the CLO Symposium, Karie Willyerd showed samples of how Sun Microsystems is preparing to greet the workforce of 2020. Sun is constructing a platform that makes the nuggets available; you can mine for them however you choose. The magic of Sun’s approach is that it accelerates informal learning.

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Down But Not Quite Out: what can we learn from the plights of Learning Tree International and Readers Digest?

Performance Learning Productivity

It seems that Reader's Digest hasn't come to terms with the way that people get their information, and their laughs, these days. Here's an example of what I mean by 'more savvy in their expectations'. Andrew won the CLO Magazine's Gold Award for innovation in 2008 for this initiative. So it's no surprise really.

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Slow Evolution of Learning Solutions

Tony Karrer

Charles talks about the Changing Expectations of CLOs: Many CLOs in large corporations around the world now subscribe to the view that most organisational learning is informal and even where formal learning is used they expect more than a one-off event from their suppliers. A lot to be learned from these kinds of examples.

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Team Learning Up With Talent

CLO Magazine

For example, Patel said he worked with a client that operates a chain of arts and crafts stores where executives noticed a pattern of inconsistent upselling from store to store. When Sun Communities was smaller, training was mostly conducted live in a classroom or on a job site. To comment, email editor@CLOmedia.com.

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Leadership Starts With Mom and Dad

CLO Magazine

Take my dad, for example. Day in and day out, he was out the door before sunrise often getting home only after the sun had gone to bed. I rely upon his example as I raise my own children. I’m sure he had days he didn’t feel his best but I never heard him complain about it. My own dad turned 80 in March.

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CLO Podcast: Visa’s Karie Willyerd on Learning Strategy

CLO Magazine

She’s been at the forefront of corporate learning for a couple of decades, leading the learning function at companies like Lockheed Martin, Heinz, Sun Microsystems and SuccessFactors/SAP. She took on the brand new role of global CLO at Visa in 2018. Her insights are sharp, practical and informed by her years of experience.

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