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Thriving in the Net-Work Era

Jay Cross

Before industrialization, work was local or industry meant cottage-industry. Sometimes guilds helped apprentices learn by doing things under the eye of a master, but there weren’t any trainers involved. About three hundred years ago, work became an organizational matter. People had vocations, not jobs. Perhaps the time has come.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Using Performance Results to Hire

Mark Oehlert

I think as "knowledge work" moves more toward free agency and companies continually seek to shed overhead, it is going to be the people who can highlight their work and who make a difference who are going to be hired quickly and easily and who will command the most money. From the land of Huh?