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Concept Worker

Tony Karrer

But then he describes how we've really moved on past that to a new age where the dominant value for most organizations are created by high-end knowledge workers working on concepts. That is to make emphasis on his focus on the right-brain aspects. The person in the call center does quite a bit of routine knowledge work.

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Tapping the Social Grid - Free Webinar

Tony Karrer

I'm going to be doing a free webinar with Mark Sylvester of IntroNetworks that's about Crowdsourcing in the Small and Social Brain. This should be a very interesting discussion. He will show an over the shoulder view of a modern knowledge worker tapping into the social grid.

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More Curious Learning

Learning Rebels

I suppose it will take bigger brains that mine to figure out why people just accept what they are told or what they believe as final word, regardless of facts and data. Those types of debates are good for the brain, it feeds the mind. Would you be able to hold your own during a discussion about the business results?

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Learned about Learning in 2009

Tony Karrer

Online Sessions / Conferences / Discussions => Now Visible Networking I’ve seen during 2009 a real growth in the ability to spark up interesting discussions as online sessions. And it can turn into great things like: Discussion Forums for Knowledge Sharing at Capital City Bank. are all forms of visible networking.

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Unbook update

Jay Cross

It’s a new way of looking at how people become competent in their work and fulfilled in their professional lives. In the network era, brains replace brawn, and most work evolves into knowledge work. Using your brain(s) effectively becomes the key to prosperity and the ultimate corporate survival skill.

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Importance of Questions in the Concept Age

ID Reflections

Talking” in class was discouraged; discussing was not the norm; individual excellence was stressed; there was always one right answer. However, it no longer answers the needs of this age of right brain driven, conceptual, creative thinkers. A simple explanation of the Cynefin Framework. When should we collaborate?

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5 Rules for Successful Microlearning

ATD Learning Technologies

Faced with a future in which AI makes work even less stable, what is needed is a wholesale transition from knowledge work to learning work. First, spacing out short lessons over time will naturally lead to more improvement in skill-heavy behaviors that must be wired into our brains and our bodies.