Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 14, 2009

Companies should embrace network-supported informal learning because it works better, not because it reduces direct costs. supporting community experimentation. Distributing learning throughout the social fabric of an organization will also require storytellers, mentors, bloggers, community elders, schedulers, and editors.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 31, 2009

New categories of work will pop up to address network optimization, making connections, reconfiguring functions, real-time enterprise design, constructive destruction, virtual mentoring and so on. If I have your support, I’ll be happy to come back with a few more things next week.”. Burning people out is not a survival strategy.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

AUGUST 19, 2010

In his 2001 book Kitchen Confidential , Anthony Bourdain describes how he became a professional chef and how he continues to support the community of professional chefs. Professionals learn from one another; through experimentation; and by following the advice of mentors. He can be reached at editor@clomedia.com.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JULY 8, 2009

This idea, difficult as it may be to accept, is supported by the countless studies Harris cites in her breezy, charming prose. The superior could be a manager, a mentor, a charismatic leader, or an instructor. Harris’s work fascinates me, for it has direct application in the workplace.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Don’t try to do everything) Presenters in early stages of doctoral work who have not been well mentored (organizers could have postgrad sessions for real beginners or hold an early conference workshop on presenting for first timers.). (let such things be voluntary or repeated later in the day if they are really important.)

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 10, 2009

For many older exectives, converting to e-business is like changing their religion.”. · Organizations have to put the fear of God in the way of executives who support of “training as usual.”. In the Information Age, everyone in the organization is a learner and a mentor and a coach. In some cases, it’s stodgy corporate culture.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JULY 12, 2010

organizations spend so much money on formal learning but spend little (if any) in support of informal learning? Morris: Given your response to the previous question, what specifically can – and should — an organization do to support informal learning? First, how do you explain the fact that many (most?)

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