Remove Communities of Practice Remove Firewalls Remove Mentoring Remove Trust
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Piecing together collaboration and cooperation

Clark Quinn

In an insightful piece , Harold Jarche puts together how collaboration and cooperation are needed to make organizations work ‘smarter’, integrating workgroups with the broader social network by using communities of practice as the intermediary. I put reflection underpinning all of these, as a core practice.

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The Coherent Organization

Jay Cross

These networks operate behind the firewall (e.g., They can be personal or professional on either side of the firewall (for example, the company football pool or machinists who support Obama’s re-election). Communities of practice need to continue to evolve their practices, sharing issues and working together to resolve them.

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Informal Learning – the other 80%

Jay Cross

Most of what we learn, we learn from other people — parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, playmates, cousins, Little Leaguers, Scouts, school chums, roommates, teammates, classmates, study groups, coaches, bosses, mentors, colleagues, gossips, co-workers, neighbors, and, eventually, our children. ” [1].