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The Tale of Two Cultures

Jay Cross

Snow wrote an essay describing the “two cultures, whose thesis was that ‘the intellectual life of the whole of western society’ was split into two cultures — namely the sciences and the humanities — and that this was a major hindrance to solving the world’s problems. Ask yourself: is your learning bi-cultural?

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The Tale of Two Cultures

Jay Cross

Snow wrote an essay describing the “two cultures, whose thesis was that ‘the intellectual life of the whole of western society’ was split into two cultures — namely the sciences and the humanities — and that this was a major hindrance to solving the world’s problems. Ask yourself: is your learning bi-cultural?

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

Jay Cross

A New Culture of Learning by Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown. All but three are by friends and colleagues. I like what I know. This baker’s dozen have influenced my thinking enormously, sometimes by the act of writing them. Informal Learning by Jay Cross. Working Smarter Fieldbook by Jay Cross. Implementing eLearning by Jay Cross.

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Isn’t this how organizational learning cultures progress?

Jay Cross

Jane Hart’s post yesterday on The differences between learning in an e-business and learning in a social business got me thinking about the evolution of learning culture in organizations.

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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.) Congratulations, guys. 610 pages for a mere $126. It’s good to see that Springer is maintaining its sense of humor. Don’t get me wrong.

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The culture of social learning

Jay Cross

Understanding Corporate Twitter , a post from an employee of EMC, got me thinking about the role of corporate culture in implementing the social learning platforms I’ve been calling learnscapes. Traditional training programs are a reflection of their designers, authors, and instructors.

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10 Reasons to Design a Better Corporate Culture

Jay Cross

Harvard Working Knowledge offers ten reasons to build a better corporate culture that you can read in two to three minutes max. Leaders must set the example by living the elements of culture: values, behaviors, measures, and actions. Employees at all levels in an organization notice and validate the elements of culture.

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