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Thriving in the Net-Work Era

Jay Cross

Consultant and management theorist Dave Snowden has come up with a framework for management practice in complex environments. This requires information, knowledge, trust and credibility. Furthermore, given the increasingly reciprocal nature of knowledge work, they will have to know how to teach. Embracing complexity.

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Reflecting on the first half of 2009

Jay Cross

Wherever possible, we’re replacing proprietary software with open source. Rather, we recommend redeploying them in new capacities, serving as connectors, wiki gardeners, internal publicists, news anchors and performance consultants. The measure of our contributions will be results, not training measures. Informal Learning.

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The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: opportunities and challenges for the L&D profession

Performance Learning Productivity

The way organisations work today is almost unrecognisably different from the structured and closely-managed systems in pre-Internet and pre-ubiquitous connectivity times. This means reviewing systems and processes and removing ‘busy work’. Not only capabilities, but also a solid and consistent performance consulting approach.