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Culture Change is More Than Skin Deep

The Performance Improvement Blog

Marissa Mayer , new CEO of Yahoo, received notoriety recently when she instituted a new policy that ended employees working from home. Those routines may or may not serve the best interests of the organization and its customers. Learning Organization is Culture, Processes, and Leadership. Related articles.

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Culture vs. Control

The Performance Improvement Blog

The dust has settled a bit on the working-from-home issue which was stirred up about a month ago when Yahoo's 11,500 employees received an email from the HR department putting an end to “work-from-home arrangements” throughout the company.

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5 Insights into Workplace Social Learning Technologies

Lambda Solutions

The evolution of social technologies from Yahoo in 1995 to Facebook in 2004 has greatly impacted the way we communicate and hence the way we learn in our professional lives.

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10 resources I enjoyed in February 2013

Jane Hart

One of the hot topics on the Web over the last week or so has been Marissa Meyer’s decision to terminate working at home for Yahoo employees. Thanks to an internal memo leaked to Kara Swisher by a Yahoo employee, we have insight into a recent decision by their C-Suite. “Edicts like the one from the Head of Yahoo!

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Hire the ‘loud’?

Clark Quinn

In thinking about how organizations can ‘learn’, it strikes me that everyone needs to be simultaneously learning and teaching. The recent story of Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo, struck me as an interesting case. Both of these would be good outcomes for Yahoo. How does that happen? to have folks sharing more.

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Our Many Hats

eLearning Cyclops

At many organizations these are two separate positions. LMS Admin - Although most organizations I''ve been with had LMS admins, their focus tended to be more on handling traditional classes managed on the LMS. you are an IT guy, right?). Instructional Designer & Developer - These are the obvious ones and why most of us are hired.

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A new Path to Performance to develop your growth acumen, with Tiffani Bova

CrossKnowledge

A guide to smarter growth choices A timely course to lead your organization to long-term, sustainable growth Boost Your Growth IQ Seeking new ways to grow can be daunting. She was named one of 2020’s Top Virtual Keynote Speakers by ReadWrite and is a frequent guest on media outlets such as Bloomberg, BNN, Cheddar News, MSNBC and Yahoo!