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Adaptive Thinking, Deliberate Practice, and Complexity

ID Reflections

In today’s workplace where Knowledge Work is characterized by: Complexity Ambiguity Novelty Diversity (of opinions, people, issues, domains, technology, etc.) The situations can and will change but someone trained to “think on their feet” will be able to handle complexity with greater ease.

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Seven Things I Learned This Year

Tony Karrer

iPad (and iPhone) are Much More Useful Than I Expected I didn’t actually think that I would care about the iPad except as a tool for training and performance support in environments like retail and restaurants where it’s always been an issue having access to machines. Performance Support in 2015 What Makes an LMS Easy to Use?

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Work Skills Keeping Up?

Tony Karrer

In New Work and New Work Skills , I discuss the fact that most of us have not participated in formal learning since college on foundational knowledge work skills - especially metacognitive skills. The figure from Basex as reported in the New York Times of $650B as the cost of information overload is staggering.