Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JUNE 30, 2010

Because skill guilds constrain… …(and defend) an organization, it is often far easier to start a new organization than to change a successful old one. The edges also permit more time for a novel organism to work out its bugs without having to oppose highly evolved organisms. This is the logic of skunk works.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 26, 2010

Harm told me about his team’s experience with informal learning in an engagement with Sara Lee. This knowledge since then is at Sara Lee leading in the decisions about investing in learning within the organization. Please refer to the research I’ve done at Sara Lee, with my team at KPMG Consulting.

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Informal Learning Informal Examples Mentoring 49

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

OCTOBER 7, 2010

A Guide to Transforming Organizations Through Social Media. Our management team will never sign off on this. Re: Second Life) It all seems too sic-fi, too unreal for my organization. The New Social Learning. By Tony Bingham and Marcia Conner. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, San Francisco. People will post incorrect information.

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Social Learning Social Wiki Second Life 52

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Appearing in today’s issue of Axiom News, Building Better Organizations : Better to begin from positive assumptions about employees. Some of these consequences include unmotivated learners, reinforcement of the negative rather than maximizing the positive, unengaged workers and little authentic team building.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 31, 2009

Transparency : Seeing the inside of an organization enables us to collaborate with it to make things better. You’ve got to know an organization or person to form a relationship. The long tail : When it comes to learning opportunities, small businesses, esoteric specialists and fast-moving teams traditionally have been short-changed.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MARCH 23, 2009

Jay Cross has advised hundreds of companies for over 30 years, this is your chance to ask him questions to better understand how your organization should be thinking about learning. He currently helps teams apply informal/web 2.0 Topics conversation will include: Informal Learning. Return on Investment. Innovation in Learning.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Linde is an anthropologist who worked on a three-year study of a large insurance company as part of a team from the Institute for Research on Learning. In the rush to rapid eLearning and small chunks, let’s not forget the importance of the stories and myths that reify the soul of the organization. Tell and retell stories. .

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