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Weapon of mass detraction

Learning with e's

But it takes some courage to stand up and challenge this kind of behaviour, especially when it is within your own community of practice and your own reputation may be at stake. But when the audience begins to turn into a mob, does tweckling not resemble villagers throwing rotten fruit at the man in the stocks?

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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. If we’re talking about the bigger vision for a whole organization, I think taking stock of where you’re at now.

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Not Your Father’s ROI

Jay Cross

Thomas Stewart sounded a clarion call in his book The Wealth of Knowledge with his exhortation that building the capacity to create economic value through things such as innovating and enhancing brand reputation is as important, or more important, than generating specific results from a specific initiative. Intangibles.

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