Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JANUARY 13, 2009

Doesn’t this sound like fun? Already, attendance is up and the failure rate has dropped by more than 50 percent. My hat’s off to MIT. Had physics been taught this way, I might not have opted to become a sociologist.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JULY 8, 2009

As I rewrite Working Smarter, Boosting Brainpower for Fun & Profit , I’m gathering up sound beliefs and best practices from a variety of disciplines to inject into corporate learnscapes. My search for innovation finds me mashing up concepts from corporate culture with those from other disciplines.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

MAY 25, 2009

Business is about making sound decisions. Your objective will often. be to do convince Andrew what you say/do is. worthy of investment. When in doubt about. ROI, just ask yourself “What would Andrew. Carnegie do?”. Every business decision is a trade-off. (If. there’s no trade-off, it’s a no-brainer.) of doing something else.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

AUGUST 1, 2009

Brain Surgery Using Sound Waves - Technology Review Feed – Tech Review Top Stories , July 20, 2009. An Easy Way to Increase Creativity - Scientific American , July 21, 2009. Seeing Our Culture With Fresh Eyes - OReilly Radar , July 23, 2009. Ace the Interview - HarvardBusiness.org , July 7, 2009.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Response 11 Presenters who sound like they think that their experiences and opinions are the only correct ones. (We Response 10 When you are in sessions all day and then on your own for meals - no events targeted at mingling and interacting with other participants. We may just have to live with this one.) Most “meetings&# are not.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

AUGUST 28, 2009

Lego hops off the Cluetrain onto the tracks in front of it, wondering what that increasingly loud sound could be - Joho the Blog , August 13, 2009. How to Build a Web Site from Scratch with No Experience [Feature] - Lifehacker , August 13, 2009. Informal Learning 2.0 - Internet Time , August 7, 2009.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JUNE 13, 2010

Mens sana in corpore sano (A sound mind in a sound body) Juvenal. Yet were corporations to embrace the Brain Rules, they would raise their organization’s capacity to learn and also improve the efficiency of current training efforts.

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