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Top of Mind: Experimenting with Social Physics

CLO Magazine

MIT professor Alex “Sandy” Pentland, often called the father of social physics, defines social physics in his 2015 book, “Social Physics: How Social Networks Can Make Us Smarter,” as “a quantitative social science that describes reliable, mathematical connections between information and idea flow on the one hand and people’s behavior on the other.”

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How to Become a Learning Organization (An Interview with Michelle Ockers)

Convergence Training

I worked at Coca-Cola Amatil for about four years, and one of the things we did was set up communities of practice. So, for example, Maintenance Planners was one community we set up. So I don’t know if you’ve followed some of what’s happened at Microsoft since their new CEO Satya Nadella took over in 2015.