Jay Cross

APRIL 29, 2015

Curation can boost your profit and help your people grow. It can save millions, reduce frustration, and boost the velocity of information in your organization. It starts in a gallery. You expect the curator of an art gallery to know the collection and to: search out the best items. select for the collection. authenticate and preserve items. add interpretation, descriptions, and meaning. publicize viewings.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 29, 2015

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, so I’ll reflect on the old days a dozen years ago when we were sorting out the ground rules for eLearning. In 2002, ASTD and I introduced a blog, Learning Circuits Blog, about eLearning and networking. I was an early and frequent contributor. For a simple blog, we went far. At ATD, Ryann Ellis was the under-appreciated editor who held it together for years. <Kudos!

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Jay Cross

APRIL 24, 2015

I’m writing a book on learning for oneself, without training. It’s for knowledge workers and bosses who have been told “You’re responsible for your own learning.” I imagine they feel like the dog who got on the bus. “What do I do now?” Aha! is a book for people and small groups of colleagues who are taking their professional development into their own hands.

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Jay Cross

APRIL 20, 2015

'Today I paid my $9.99 and started devouring free books on Amazon Kindle Unlimited. I spend on average of $40 a month on hardcopy books, so this seems like a steal. Since I’m in the midst of writing a book on solo/DIY learning, I thought I might learn something from these freebies: 45 Elearning Tips and Tricks , by John Araiza. This is an instructional designer’s record of twelve years’ experience.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 29, 2015

'I just copied a rough draft of my new book, Learn For Yourself , into a free summarizer. In a few seconds, it reduced my 116-page manuscript to 10 items. It’s all a matter of learning, but it’s not the sort of learning that is the province of training departments, workshops, and classrooms. You are learning to learn how to become the person you wrote the obit for.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 28, 2015

'I love the internet. I detest the amount of maintenance that’s required just to keep things running. I didn’t sign up for wasting several hours a week dealing with nuisance requests. It’s beginning to feel like the old days, when you had to kow-tow to IT to get anything done. Over cautious? Take this morning. eBay emailed that my account had been compromised.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 27, 2015

'Informal Learning is available via Google Books. Read a couple of chapters for free.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 17, 2014

'If you want to learn what’s going on in learning and development worldwide, join me in Berlin this December for Online Educa. You’ll connect with colleagues from a hundred countries! This is the 20th anniversary of this forum of thought leaders in business, education, and government. Is it worth it? I certainly think so. This will be my tenth Educa.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 17, 2014

'#ITASHARE #JAYCROSS.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 17, 2014

'Ah, the joys of modern medicine. I’ve begun taking a drug that requires me to restrict my diet severely. I’m not allowed to eat aged cheese, sausage, draft beer, sourdough bread, or anything else that contains significant amounts of tyramine , an amino acid that helps regulate blood pressure. Eating the forbidden fruit can cause severe headache, nausea, stiff neck, vomiting, a fast or slow heartbeat, tight chest pain, a lot of sweating, confusion, dilated pupils, and sensitivity to

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

'John Hagel tells us that “ Answers can be helpful but they only have a fixed value. And answers, no matter how good they are, tend to become obsolete at an accelerating rate. As conditions evolve, those answers that only a little while ago seemed so compelling and helpful now begin to seem stale and worn.” Instead of answers, “ … questions do something else that’s absolutely vital for influence – they rapidly build trust with the person posing the questions.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 28, 2013

'See on Scoop.it – Informal & Experiential Learning. Google taps its own ranks to teach valuable career-building classes as well as extracurriculars like kickboxing and social skills for engineers. Fast… Jay Cross ‘s insight: "In 2013, about 2,000 Googlers have so far volunteered to teach classes through the program, and together they will teach about 55% of the company’s official classes." See on www.fastcompany.com.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 22, 2013

'If you’re not into model trains, you might want to skip this.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 20, 2013

'A portrait of me by Julie Dirksen. Is the quote a putdown? Or am I praising serendipity? I don’t remember the context.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 18, 2013

'See on Scoop.it – Jay Cross. Consider these pages a museum of things that have inspired my thinking since the ‘net lit up. My interests embrace business strategy, networks, innovation, and learning. Here you will find inspira… Jay Cross ‘s insight: Important Stuff Consider these pages a museum of things that have inspired my thinking since the ‘net lit up.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 18, 2013

'I’ve shown Father Guido Sarducci’s Five Minute University skit fifty times and it still cracks me up. It’s a classic. Internet Time Group (that’s me) curates a collection of classic videos, books, and other writings. These are things I like to share with others and revisit on my own. See my Important Stuff page. I want to beef up the collection.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 17, 2013

'by mayra.artes. Explore more infographics like this one on the web’s largest information design community – Visually.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 17, 2013

'Letter to HSBC. No reply received. September 26, 2103. Mark Luppi. Executive Vice President. U.S. Business Banking. HSBC Bank USA. 452 5th Avenue. New York, NY 10018. Dear Mark, We share a few connections. I’ve written for American Banker, partnered with the Consumer Bankers Association and trained regulators at the Fed and the OCC. We’ve both done our bit at Harvard Business School.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 11, 2013

'See MindTime.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 8, 2013

'See on Scoop.it – Jay Cross. Jay Cross ‘s insight: Time is the universal constant. I’m reading Smolin’s Time Reborn. It’s wonderful. Click around this site and change your thinking. See on leesmolin.com.

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Jay Cross

JULY 7, 2013

'Yesterday I came upon a 13-year old cassette recording of Peter Henschel, executive director of the Institute for Research on Learning , speaking to a breakout session at Elliott Masie’s TechLearn conference. This talk had a profound effect on my thinking. It holds up damn well today. Learning About Learning: Lessons from the Trenches. Session 99TL-503, TechLearn 1999, Orlando.

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Jay Cross

JULY 3, 2013

'See on Scoop.it – Humanist Business. The concept of ‘knowledge worker’ which Peter Drucker coined in 1959, is perhaps not so clear (as shown again in a recent LinkedIn discussion - access potentially limited) and can be understood at … Jay Cross ‘s insight: Brilliant. Desired traits in the modern knowledge worker: Gifts and skills: A synthetic mind that can ingest a lot of information and summarise it in clear and concise ways, perhaps using mnemonics.A pair of int

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Jay Cross

JULY 3, 2013

'See on Scoop.it – Future of Business. When it comes to the future of work there are a few key trends which business leaders need to pay attention to. Understanding these trends will allow organizations to better prepare and adapt to the changes which are impacting the way we work. Jay Cross ‘s insight: Work is learning and learning is work.

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Jay Cross

JUNE 25, 2013

'Half a dozen years of journals and notebooks are migrating from my shelves to recycling. I need the space — and I don’t have much use for yesterday’s thinking. I had to save a few memorable entries. Here’s The Great Divide (from the age of material to the age of relationships). How people learn… Basics of working smarter… Synopsis of The Halo Effect.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 21, 2013

Steve Hargadon interviewed me about informal learning yesterday. Steve does his homework and asks great questions. If you listen to podcasts while exercising, perhaps you’ll enjoy the Audio of Steve letting me amble on for an hour. A one-hour audio goes against my religion of brevity & less-is-more. However, if you want a painless way to peak into my thinking while hiking or peddling, this may be up your alley.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 20, 2013

I hoped you’ve noticed that this site is undergoing a revamp. This site is the lab. I experiment here. The polished stuff moves ahead to jaycross.com. Everything on both sites is licensed under Creative Commons. Creative Commons does not mean free. Two days ago I came upon a presentation from a Fortune 20 company that contained these words from my work, “the unofficial, unscheduled, impromptu way most people learn to do their jobs.” Was it coincidental that I’d described

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Jay Cross

MARCH 19, 2013

Prototype for happiness/well-being card deck. What do you think? My calling is to help a millon people lead happier and more satisfying lives. Mainly business people caught up in the rat race. There’s great hope and cause for celebration. Moore’s Law favors us all. Help me reach a million by the end of the year. Pass the word. Let’s go viral now.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 18, 2013

The U.S. economy flip-flopped in the most amazing way in the last twenty years of the twentieth century. Call it The Rise of Intangibles. The value underpinning America’s public companies shifted from 80% tangibles — things you could see and touch — to 80% intangibles, invisible things like know-how, secret sauce, brand, and relationships.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 17, 2013

CLO December 28, 2012. How far does a CLO’s responsibility extend in an enlightened, twenty-first century company? Assume your silo walls are coming down. Pockets of your organization are beginning to resemble W.L. Gore or Google or the agile companies you read about in Fast Company. Self-organizing teams are popping up. R&D is increasingly crowd-sourced.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 17, 2013

Your Personal Austerity Program , a story in last week’s New York Times magazine planted a powerful story in my mind. Alexander the Great’s supreme strategist, Xenophon, suggested that a commander can strengthen his position by fighting next to a dangerous cliff. His soldiers have but two choices, fight or die. His opponent had a third option: to flee.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 16, 2013

More than a century ago, my great great grandfather, Senator James K. Jones of Arkansas, bought a large ranch for hunting quail smack dab in the heart of Texas. Jones was one of the best connected lawyers in the nation, having served two terms in the U.S. House of Reprsentatives, three terms in the U.S. Senate, and twice headed the Democratic National Committee.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 17, 2013

If you feel your life’s not all it could be, consider joining us in Berkeley on Wednesday evening for a small group session on finding true happiness. This is the unofficial member meeting of Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center. I’m speaking.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 13, 2013

Corporate colleges. Higher education in the United States is broken. Costs are ouf of control. Students are dissatisfied. Graduates can’t get jobs. Says MIT’s Andy McAfee , “What’s going on is halfway between a bubble and a scandal.”. I propose we put higher ed back on track by founding Corporate Colleges. Corporate colleges break higher ed into its constitutent parts and reassemble them with checks and balances more fitting for a pragmatic 21st century education.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 13, 2013

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

This afternoon I bought an iPhone5. I was forced into it. Our new iPhone app goes into testing this evening, and it won’t play on my aging iPhone2. Parting with my money was not as easy as expected. Over and over, I heard the Apple Store greeter tell people that four or five others were ahead of them and that they would have to wait 20 or 30 minutes to talk with a sales person.

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Internet Time Lab needed a logo for its iPhone app to measure emotion. At my partner’s suggestion, I turned to 99designs.com , “the fastest growing design marketplace in the world.” Their site says they’ve conducted 174,000 design contests and paid out $1.4 million to designers last month. I’d never heard of them. Nine days ago, I posted a spec for what I wanted, put $149 on my credit card, and began receiving design options. 23 designers submitted a total of 62 ent

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Jay Cross

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

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