Clark Quinn

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Leadership for Complexity

Clark Quinn

The other meme from the retreat event last weekend was the notion of leadership for complexity. A few of us decided to workshop a topic around performance, leadership, and technology. What’s needed is leadership that can lead the organization to be able to leverage complexity for success. the Coherent Organization ).

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A message to CxOs about L&D myths

Clark Quinn

Maybe reading and writing, but beyond that, what did you learn about business, leadership, etc? When you’re doing trouble-shooting, research, design, etc., Except, do you remember how effective school actually was? Did it give you many of the skills you apply in your job now? And how did you learn those things?

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Design like a pro

Clark Quinn

The Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center is compiling research to provide guidance about learning if you want a fuller scientific treatment. And Hess & Saxberg’s recent Breakthrough Leadership in the Digital Age: Using Learning Science to Reboot Schooling is both a call for why and some guidance on how.

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A Nurturing Culture #blimage

Clark Quinn

I’ve earlier detailed what the research says about the elements of a learning organization, and it’s clear that you need a culture with several elements. It is really important that leadership reinforces learning, both by supporting and more importantly by practicing visibly! So there’s my blog on the image.

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Return on Wisdom

Clark Quinn

Does outsourcing and layoffs end up being more costly than investing in better leadership and culture? Laurie Bassie’s research found that there was a correlation between high scores on handling people and business results. There are some answers.

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Mentoring

Clark Quinn

Seeing the connection between computers and learning via that job, I designed my own major in college, and with the guidance of Hugh Mehan and Jim Levin learned a lot about what constituted good research. Jim Schuyler brought me back to the US, where he again mentored me on team leadership.

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Silo APIs?

Clark Quinn

In particular, we were talking about how the division of responsibility between organizational development (OD), leadership development, and learning & development is a problem. Any meaningful work – problem-solving, trouble-shooting, improvement, innovation, research, design etc – any learning, is complex.

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