Jay Cross

AUGUST 23, 2015

Isn’t it great that Google’s API enables you to do stuff like this? I’ve visited 46 countries. (20.4%) Create your own visited map of The World. I’ve visited 48 of the 50 states. (96%) Create your own visited map of The United States. Google hacks site. Google talk a. Google Hack by. Douwe Osinga.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 23, 2015

View jaycross’s profile on TweepsMap.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 21, 2015

This morning I awoke to find messages from a dozen friends asking, “Did you send me this?” Hackers had managed to send everyone on my Skype account a link to a weight-reduction site. (“How Rachel Dropped 25 Pounds and 4 Dress Sizes!”). I wrote everyone, “This is spam. Please don’t open it. (I wouldn’t suggest you need a weight loss program even if it’s true.)” Opening the spam is apparently harmless.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 21, 2015

HBR, September 2015. Gazing at Nature Makes You More Productive. The research: University of Melbourne researchers Kate Lee, Kathryn Williams, Leisa Sargent, Nicholas Williams, and Katherine Johnson gave 150 subjects a menial task that involved hitting specific keystrokes when certain numbers flashed on a computer screen. After five minutes the subjects were given a 40-second break, and an image of a rooftop surrounded by tall buildings appeared on their screens.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 22, 2015

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance. While cleaning up my office this afternoon, I came up this list of essentials for effective informal learning I wrote a couple of years ago for the ASTD Handbook. I don’t know if I’m in a rut or simply unwavering in my beliefs, but I was surprised to find that every one of these appears in nearly the same language in my new book.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 23, 2015

2001. Everyone has the capacity to learn but most people can do a much better job of it. Learning is a skill one can improve. Learning how to learn is a key to its mastery. Learning is the primary determinant of personal and professional success in our ever-changing knowledge age. People and organizations that strive to succeed had better get good at it.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 20, 2015

Clark Quinn mentioned The Meta-Learning Lab during #lrnchat today and it brought back a rush of memories. 14 years ago, Clark and I, along with Claudia Welss and Claudia L’Amoreaux, founded the Meta-Learning Lab. We were ahead of our time. Our foundation beliefs were that… Everyone has the capacity to learn but most people can do a much better job of it.

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Jay Cross

MAY 5, 2015

The draft of my new book, Aha!, 21 Ways to Work Smarter and Become Who You Are , is on sale for $12. I don’t write books the way I used to. I have Lean Fever. Now I write the best I can rapidly and make it available for pioneering readers who provide feedback. Given enough iterations, this will be one fantastic book. I slipstream new content into the book continuously.

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Jay Cross

MAY 2, 2015

My book Aha! Learn for Yourself challenges readers to consider where they’ve been in their careers and where they’re headed. I feel obligated to practice what I preach. My career in the learning business is at a turning point. My history by type of learning is below. I have one foot in retirement now; I’ve been at this for nearly fifty years!

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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 7, 2015

'Belarus has gotten the word about informal learning. If they can do it, you can do it! ?? ?????? ???? ??????, ?????? 10–15 % ????????????? ?????? ???????? ?? ?????????? ??????????, ? ????????? 85 % — ?? ????????????. ?????? ?? ??? ??? ????????????? ???????? ? ????????? ????????? ????? ???? ????????. ? ????? ????? ?? ???????? ????????????, ??? ?????????

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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

MARCH 14, 2015

'Two years ago I set up a Google Group on Learning. Last night I wrote the members: You’re one of 1,797 members of the Learning in Organizations Community on Google Plus. Since its founding two years ago, our community has morphed into a place to post wisdom, schlock, and self-boosterism. Some days you get lucky and discover a gem in the flow; other days you don’t find anything worth your time.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 10, 2015

'Aha! is a set of practices I’m developing to help pull-workers learn to learn. I’m investigating what it takes for a learner to become self-sufficient, to both learn and design learning experiences. I’d like to make that easier. My bookshelves groan under more than 200 books on learning and development. (I’ve recycled many to get down to this.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 8, 2015

'According to Business Insider , readers of Capital in the Twenty-first Century made it through just 2.1% of the book on average, with the last highlighted section appearing on page 26. Other results: Most people have gotten through only an eighth of “Lean In” by Sheryl Sandberg, and only a fifth through “Flash Boys” by Michael Lewis.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 8, 2015

'72% of eighteen Fortune 100 CLOs told me their people are not growing fast enough to keep up with the needs of the business. . Granted, it’s impossible to predict the future needs of the business in this volatile world, it’s still troubling that most big-company CLOs don’t feel what they’re doing is adequate to prepare the workforce for the future.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 7, 2015

'Help me figure out what’s gone haywire with my Macs. My keyboard has gone wacko. Last night I cleaned the Bluetooth keyboard I use with my iMac. The batteries only had 18% juice left, so I replaced them. When I rebooted the iMac, I found I was missing the Space Bar, Delete key, and several individual letters. I figured I’d shorted something out with the cleaner.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 3, 2015

'I’ve been depressed. Telling you this will blow my chances of running for president, but what the hell: I have been clinically depressed for the last two years. It’s a form of going crazy. I lost interest in my work, stopped blogging and taking photos. I became a near-hermit. . I want to share my experiences with you so that if the black dog visits you or one of your friends, you’ll recognize it for what it is and take appropriate action.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 3, 2015

'Enterprise Learning takes learning beyond the training department into the overall extended enterprise, the “Workscape.” It’s a breakout that’s happening throughout organizations as they embrace digital technology. Enterprise Learning is the learning component of Digital Transformation , defined by Altimeter Group as: The realignment of, or new investment in, technology and business models to more effectively engage digital customers at every touchpoint in the customer e

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 28, 2015

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Jay Cross

MARCH 1, 2015

'Wisdom 2.0 Conference , San Francisco, February 27 – March 1. Billed as “the intersection of wisdom and technology,” the Wisdom 2.0 conference drew 2,500 people who spent $625 for two and a half days of secular Buddhism. I am interested in the interaction of mindfulness and business. Mindfulness – the opposite of mindlessness – is a natural component of Working Smarter. .

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Jay Cross

MARCH 1, 2015

'I bailed out of the Wisdom 2.0 conference Main Stage events yesterday afternoon and missed the opportunity to see Jon Kabat Zinn , whom I only know from his books and tapes: Jon is a god. I revere him. He moves mountains. So I was elated to find this recording of his presentation this morning. The Good: Jon takes us into meditation, overviews the global mindfulness phenomenon, gives a characteristic uplifting message and call to action, gets you in a mood to finally start meditating daily, chal

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Jay Cross

JUNE 10, 2014

'To see Big Data at work, look to Google, where number-crunching on a massive scale has changed hiring and management practices. Measurements and analytics rule at Google. “All people decisions at Google are based on data and analytics,” according to Kathryn Dekas, a manager in Google’s “people analytics” team. Google’s conclusions have a bearing on where CLOs should be focusing their efforts.

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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

JANUARY 26, 2014

'First published in Chief Learning Officer magazine, February 2013. Formal gets all the money, but today more learning happens outside the classroom. Learning is more important than ever. We have an information explosion. The world is becoming more complex. We have to learn more just to keep living our lives. That doesn’t mean we need training departments — and that’s where the budgets are cut.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 22, 2014

'Here’s a shot from a Quicktime video on my desktop: Here’s the same scene from a video uploaded to YouTube. YouTube roughs up the video. I’m going to need another place to post videos. Anyone got a suggestion?

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 20, 2014

'I teaching myself how to take decent talking-head video. I’m learning by doing. If you can get to Berkeley this week, I’ll be happy to shoot a brief video of you. I get the practice; you get a free video.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 31, 2013

'See on Scoop.it – Informal & Experiential Learning. Jay Cross ‘s insight: Great post by Harold Jarche detailing the steps of Personal Knnowledge Management (PKM). See on www.jarche.com.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 31, 2013

'HAROLD JARCHE. OCTOBER 29, 2013. PKM in 34 pieces. Much of my work on PKM has been inspired by others. have put these pieces together into a framework that I think makes sense and may be of some use. MORE >> ADAPTIVE PATH. OCTOBER 25, 2013. Five Ways People Adopt And Love Change. ‘Oh dear Lord. The new experience. You’ve spent months redesigning it and now you’re in the homestretch. ” What a shocker. link].

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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 14, 2013

'Time Reborn by Lee Smolin. After reading The Quotable Einstein , I would blithely say that “Time is an illusion although it’s an annoyingly persistent one.” Lee Smolin has convinced me otherwise. Time is very real. Everything exists in time. Things that are timeless do not exist. Everything happens in its moment(s). Virtues, values, and other things exist only in the context of time.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 13, 2013

'My grandfather’s watch. Still keeping good time. W.H. Cross, 1890-1984. My father’s father fought in World War I (by lying that he was older) and World War II (by pointing out that he was younger). His father fought in the Civil War by virtue of being an underage Confederate recruit in the final days who sired children late in life. I’m studying time.

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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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