Nick Leffler

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Are You Appy?

Nick Leffler

There are many questions that come up when deciding on what type of mobile solution is needed for an organization. There are developer fees, difficulties in having to create your app for each operating system, and more. Do you have resources to develop a mobile app? The question I want to cover is whether to app or not.

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Recipe For Disaster

Nick Leffler

I’ve been thinking about a scenario where I compare a transparent organization with a non-transparent organization. To put this into context, imagine working with a new application being developed within an organization. Don’t let anyone see the mess that the development process involves.

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Employees Avoiding Corporate Barriers

Nick Leffler

I’ve seen what command and control leads to and it’s not good for anybody, organization or employee. When an organization gets worried about lawsuits and starts to shut computer systems down to prevent leaks and errors, people don’t always take part willingly. Working Around Legal. it’s going to backfire.

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Transitioning Responsibility to Managers, T&D Becomes a Curation Resource

Nick Leffler

Just as with everything else in an organization, training relies on its importance being exemplified by leaders. If the answer to that questions is Training & Development, I don’t think training is going to be as successful as it needs to be to create the value commensurate with how much money is being invested.

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Make Someone’s Life Easier

Nick Leffler

This trust builds something important in an organization and I’d argue creates an even better learning culture. Developing training and making it available isn’t enough, giving resources to people and allowing them to do the learning is what makes a learning culture. What’s My Development Process?

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Don’t Control Knowledge, Let the Base Free

Nick Leffler

Just as trying to organize information into neat categories rarely works and is not useful, so is access levels useless. This method of organizing and controlling access to information is a remnant of the hierarchy. What’s My Development Process? It doesn’t work well.

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Turn The Curiosity Back On

Nick Leffler

Just like the time to develop your professional network is not when you’re looking for work. They only look internally within their organization and department. They get comfortable and stop trying to learn new things. New things are learned only when somebody tells you to or there’s a new job you have your eye one.