Jay Cross

JUNE 4, 2012

Ideas from Jane Hart’s online chat on June 4 in the Social Learning Centre. Q1) Harold in his blog post says ”For too long our organizations have suffered from the disease of complication. It’s time to simplify.” Let’s look at how we can simplify learning solutions.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 11, 2015

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.” – Linus Pauling. We must beware of what I will call “inert ideas” that is to say, ideas that are merely received into the mind without being utilized or tested or thrown into fresh combinations.” ” – Charles Kettering. Somerset Maugham .

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 14, 2013

We have reached the limits of the usefulness of the idea that were separate from nature. The false idea we have to put behind us is the idea that what is bound in time is an illusion and what is timeless is real. We need to eliminate the idea that anything is, or can be, timeless.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 8, 2014

Online Educa is a crossroads for divergent ideas. Stephen Downes makes a great case for personal (not personalized) learning. Howard Rheingold is a champion of co-learning. Take a look at Peeragogy. People from 100 countries attend.) I’ll be documenting some of the things I learned in the weeks ahead. JAYCROSS #ITASHARE #OEB14.

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

The more diverse the sources the better because the freshest ideas pop up from outside one’s comfort zones. What happens is refinement, hypothesis-testing, looking for patterns, mapping, conversation, and reflecting on ideas and images that are emerging. Internet Time Blog, internettime.com, where ideas turn into posts.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 30, 2013

Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson. Social Learning Handbook by Jane Hart. The New Social Learning by Tony Bingham and Marcia Conner. The Connected Company by Dave Gray. Now You See It by Cathy Davidson. Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management by Stephen Denning. Just Jay'

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

We have 977 members and an occasional worthy idea. Join us in the Learning in Organizations Community on Google+. Sign up today (we’ll take anybody with minimal keyboard skills) and you might be member #1000. Blogging Learning Community Miscellaneous'

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

There are no isolated ideas; there never were; there are only webs of ideas. People and ideas and knowledge and happenings are connected as never before, and there’s no end in sight. This is hardly a new idea. On the net, facts don’t stay on the page. Learning originally meant finding the right path.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

Some annual files contain hundreds of pages of ideas, observations, confessions, and diary stuff. Business ideas, project reminders, reflections, all the stuff that would disappear from my memory banks, to be retrieved with an assist from my outboard brain’s 2012 file. I weed them out every five years.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 25, 2013

As I dropped each volume into the stack, I tried to let go of its ideas. How people learn… Basics of working smarter… Synopsis of The Halo Effect. I thumbed through the journals as I took them from the shelves. I want to make room for the next wave or thoughts worth jotting down. Just Jay Meta-Learning'

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Jay Cross

JULY 9, 2010

I have many ideas and doodles I want to capture. A new idea or unfamiliar fact will provoke a reflex to do something: to research the term, to query your screen “friends” for their opinions, to find alternative views, to create a bookmark, to interact with or tweet the thing rather than simply contemplate it.

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Put this in your stash — mp3s of brilliant people selling inspirational ideas. It will take me 45 minutes to get there from my house (thanks to public trans). October 13-14th, 2012 in San Francisco. That’s a recording of every Singularity Summit from the beginning, in 2006. I remember sitting in the second row at that one.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 24, 2013

More Ideas for Jumpstarting the Transformation of Management (Forbes). Starting ideas. Listen to Steve Denning, Jurgen Appelo, Niels Pflaeging, Franz Röösli and Dawna Jones. Help the Stoos Gathering Transform Management (Forbes). The Stoos Network. The Stoos Network on LinkedIn. The invitation to Stoos. Stoos Network on Twitter.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 18, 2011

As I ponder what it takes for managers and leaders to succeed in the 21th century workplace (my present obsession ), I find myself returning to beautiful ideas. The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.” - Linus Pauling. Classic automobiles with staying power are but only a metaphor here.

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Jay Cross

JULY 12, 2011

We’d entered an age of unparalleled volatility, uncertainty, and accelerating speed where ideas had become more valuable than physical things. Intangibles — know how, know who, ideas, and the tacit lessons of experience — have limitless potential; plant and equipment can be millstones that hold you back.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

I’m delighted to highlight their ideas here. When we meet for lunch, I never fail to come away with a long list of new ideas and insights. Today I’m adding three new sources to Working Smarter Daily. These people consistently produce provocative, outstanding insights. These guys exemplify quality thinking.

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Jay Cross

JULY 2, 2010

There’s no such limit on ideas. Sergey Brin and Larry Page, thought up Google when they were in graduate school; it was a $100 billion idea. For one, rates of production are no longer limited by physical factors. A bricklayer can only lay so many bricks per hour before his heart gives out.

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Jay Cross

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Professor Khurram Afridi and the entire course team are looking forward to working with you during the course and welcome your feedback, ideas, and questions. We hope that you have set aside adequate time to fully explore the extensive course materials, problem sets and labs. The 6.002x Course Team. Uh, take it back. .

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Jay Cross

MARCH 3, 2012

Working smarter draws upon ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 The Collaboration Commons Idea - Dan Pontefract , February 7, 2012. Best of Working Smarter Daily. February 1-29, 2012.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Great ideas appear when you remove your nose from the grindstone. Two weeks away from my day job. Sometimes you need to back away from the day-to-day. Reflection renews the spirit. Life is good.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 20, 2013

“The disturbing fact is that the vast majority of people, including educated and otherwise sophisticated people find the idea of change so threatening that they attempt to deny its existence. “Given the underground resistance to change…the new idea either finds a champion or dies.” ” G. ” Author C.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 11, 2013

Park Howell expands the idea of humanization vs. industrialization in this guest post. See on Scoop.it – Emotion in the Workplace. How can being more open, trustworthy, and courageous through social media transform your corporation? Jay Cross ‘s insight: Some of this is red state-blue state, e.g. Conservative = out, Liberal = in.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 1, 2013

Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson. Social Learning Handbook by Jane Hart . The New Social Learning by Tony Bingham and Marcia Conner. The Connected Company by Dave Gray. Now You See It by Cathy Davidson. Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management by Stephen Denning.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 21, 2015

Conversations cross-fertilize ideas and fuel learning. Don’t spend time talking about ideas or initiatives you know you won’t take action on. You prepare in advance at your own pace with resources framing the business issue. When people convene, they spend their time collaborating to solve a problem. During the meeting.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 12, 2012

But maybe you’re stuck for ideas about what to give your staff. My wife and I still chuckle over a Christmas episode of the Bob Newhart show where Bob gives Emily a thoroughly utilitarian gift, a blenderizer. The above comes from the Wiley & Co. They provide a free chapter, A Natural Way of Learning , and link to some reviews.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

I put up $149 and designers are submitting ideas. The name Blips refers to the scant amount of time — a couple of Blips a day– it takes to increase one’s feelings of contentment and satisfaction. I crowdsourced the design of the icon to 99Designs. What do you think? If you feel strongly, leave a comment.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

That’s the idea here. Popular Science used to have a feature called Wordless Workshop which was totally visual. Internet Time Alliance. Recommended background music.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

The basic idea that Chatwin posits is that language started as song, and the aboriginal Dreamtime sings the land into existence. The idea arose that “old stuff” retains lots of value. I publish drafts and incomplete ideas because I’d like your help making them more useful. Hence, the Walkabout.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 8, 2011

In our collaboration, we learn from one another and build upon each other’s ideas. When I look at the graphic, I see the fingerprints of each member of the Internet Time Alliance. Jane Hart came up with the 3-part breakdown of learning. Harold elaborated on Jane’s model. Clark Quinn and I have worked in the column.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 31, 2012

Socrates “loved to pick intellectual fights and the method was not so much a gentle teasing out of ideas, more the brutal exposure of falsehoods. Prickly and paranoid, he managed to fall out with almost everyone, including those who tried to help him.”.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 21, 2012

Where good ideas come from, Stephen Johnson’s marvelous look into innovation… also under five minutes. So my blog posting slacked off. I’m going to experiment with posting whatever I feel like here at internettime.com. I’ll archive the keepers at jaycross.com. Innovation in minutes. Chance favors the connected mind.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

It’s a much bigger idea. Is this the best the human race can do? He would also have endorsed Doris Drucker’s thought that the so-called Information Revolution is not really about information or even communication. It’s about human behavior and human values."

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Jay Cross

MARCH 6, 2011

The State Department didn’t think it was a good idea so now we’re going to ride the Orient Express instead. From the pharoah’s kiln: Uta and I were scheduled to be drifting down the Nile in a sumptuous boat on March 22nd. Today was my day for being amazed by ancient Egypt without having to leave the States.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 26, 2011

Some people come for edgy ideas about organizational learning; others visit for food pics and travelogue. Lately, I’ve focused on working smarter , of which informal learning is a small component. Expect a mixture of business and personal to appear here, for I don’t separate the two.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 14, 2015

You got great ideas and stories? People on the thin end of the Long Tail. Please promote us on your streams. Finally, please contribute to the community if you’re good at that type of thing. Please share your most exciting, zany projects. You show me yours; I’ll show you mine. If you have suggestions, post them right here.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 16, 2011

Think how liberating this one idea is. People would take turns sitting at Ward’s desk entering information on people, projects, and ideas. Sharing – of information, knowledge, experience, ideas, views… “Publish, then polish.&# You don’t own your own text. That’s the foundation here.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 18, 2013

Help me form a nascent idea. If you are only interested in conclusions, sign up for the Jay Cross Blog.). What do you think of this? Does the movement toward 80% complexity ring true? Where can we find out more about the statistics?

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