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Dated best practices

Jay Cross

ELEARNING BEST PRACTICES SUMMARY. the training department and information. Create incentives for informal learning and. formal courses with informal learning. to enable greater multiuse of digital content for formal and informal. For example? I’m going to post a few inline comments from today in red.

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danah boyd on teens and 21st century work

Jay Cross

Information flows faster when it’s available to everyone. They share information with competitors because sharing is to everyone’s advantage. For example, Steve Denning’s Radical Management concept mashes up the zeitgeist of Scrum, Agile, and Kanban with business management: Delight customers. It takes place after hours in bars.

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Learning while working

Jay Cross

A few quick impressions from my initial skim of Learning while Working , a summary report on eight years of European research grants and studies of informal learning in the workplace: This is an amazingly Euro-centric report. Implying that trainers have to get on board to implement informal learning is wacky. I disagree.

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Why Content Curation Should be in Your Skillset

Jay Cross

It can save millions, reduce frustration, and boost the velocity of information in your organization. meeting summaries. Curating these items — selecting, organizing, evaluating, and sharing them widely — multiplies an organization’s return on information many times over. An example: How Jay Cross Curates Content.

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Re-imagining the Book

Jay Cross

Most managers don’t read books; they gather information on the web. information nuggets. My summary at this point: I’ve been preaching that action is the measure of learning , not knowing. This will take organization, strong design, collaboration, and artistry. Creating the new book raises some interesting issues. hyperlinked)?

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Use Your Brain

Jay Cross

Hauke Heekeren, Professor of Affective Neuroscience and Psychology of Emotions at the Freie Universität Berlin and Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development, gave a brief summary of the function of the brain and the basic methods of neuroimaging. For more information on Hauke Heekeren, please refer to [link].

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Decisions, decisions. Business decisions.

Jay Cross

Every business decision is made with less than perfect information, and every decision entails taking a risk. Every business decision is made with less than perfect information, and every decision entails taking a risk. Saying “We don’t have enough information” is not an acceptable excuse. He who hesitates is lost.