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How Effective Leadership Transforms Organizations

eLearningMind

Still, that hasn’t stopped a rash of leadership programs cropping up in every Fortune 500 or mom-and-pop shop in response to an increased demand for better-trained leaders and improved talent management. Apple—Tim Cook Taking over from Steve Jobs, Cook has steered Apple toward continued success.

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Lessons from the past

dVinci Interactive

Soon after, Apple Computer introduced the Macintosh with Hypercard which, according to Steve Jobs, was an object oriented “programming language for the rest of us.” Now instructional designers weren’t constrained by the limited functions in programs like IconAuthor.

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Friday News Roundup: Lessons from Healthcare.gov and End of Unpaid Internships

OpenSesame

There were many lessons to be learned from events this week in the corporate world which included the end of unpaid internships at Condé Nast and a rough launch of Healtcare.gov. Condé Nast announced on Wednesday it has discontinued its intern program , though the company still denies violating any labor laws.

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Friday News Roundup: Lessons from Healthcare.gov and End of Unpaid Internships

OpenSesame

There were many lessons to be learned from events this week in the corporate world which included the end of unpaid internships at Condé Nast and a rough launch of Healtcare.gov. Condé Nast announced on Wednesday it has discontinued its intern program , though the company still denies violating any labor laws. Friday News Roundup'

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How Apple Killed Flash for eLearning (and What to do with All That Non-Compatible Courseware)

eLearningMind

In 2010, Steve Jobs singlehandedly started one of the biggest–OK, maybe the only–software feuds by stating that Apple products wouldn’t support Flash, citing reasons like a high fail rate, lag time, and the overall unnecessary nature of the platform. Consider this: In 2011, 28.5 percent of websites used Flash for multimedia applications.

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Sharing Failure

Clark Quinn

I’ve earlier talked about the importance of failure in learning, and now it’s revealed that Apple’s leadership development program plays that up in a big way. There are risks in sharing, and rewards. And ways to do it better and worse.

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Vale Jobs

Clark Quinn

My first job out of college was designing and programming educational computer games. I had to do the TRS-80 Model I before I got to work on an Apple ][, but I finally bought a ][e, and sold it to my company shortly thereafter as I headed off to graduate school. How many of you would have liked to work for Apple?

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