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21st Century Leadership

Jay Cross

A new CEO with a grand vision of social networks, openness, innovation, experimentation, and continuous improvement is not enough to turn a large organization around because she’s saddled with a legacy culture. Managers and professionals who have grown up taking and giving orders simply don’t know how to adapt.

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Balancing innovations and implementation

Janet Clarey

Social Media! Social Networking! Many times, doing it right requires heavy lifting. Hard-to-get research >>> Adopt new process >>> Blog, Wiki, Twitter, Social Network, Skype, Group calls, Google docs, etc. Why do they fail so often? Maintaining status quo (knowing-doing gap).

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9 Ways to Increase Online Student Engagement

WBT Systems

Help students cross the knowing-doing gap by having them immediately apply what they’ve learned. Keep their brains engaged by delivering content in different formats: videos, voice over slides, audio, text, and panel discussions. #7 7 – Get students to take action on what they’ve learned.

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