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Sun, Elite, and the future

Jay Cross

At the CLO Symposium, Karie Willyerd showed samples of how Sun Microsystems is preparing to greet the workforce of 2020. Sun is constructing a platform that makes the nuggets available; you can mine for them however you choose. In a knowledge society, work and learning are the same thing. That’s no longer the case.

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eLearning Learning Hot List Feb 1-14

Tony Karrer

Hot List - 2/1/2009 - 2/14/2009 Posts Mathemagenic " PhD conclusions in a thousand words: blogging practices of knowledge workers A Guide to Social Learning What Goes in the LMS? The posts come from the primary sources for this group. Other items come from other sources.

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Quotes and excerpts on the need for Learning 2.0 from the Best of T+D: 2007-2009

ID Reflections

Excerpts from the Best of T+D | 2007 - 2009 Harold Jarche in Skills 2.0 : As knowledge workers, we are like actors--only as good as our last performance. Professionals are anyone who does work that cannot be standardized easily and who continuously welcomes challenges at the cutting edge of his or her expertise.

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Tapping the Social Grid - Free Webinar

Tony Karrer

The methods and norms for tapping into the social grid are often not well understood by concept workers. In this talk, Dr. Tony Karrer will look at the places where the social grid is so important for concept workers. He will show an over the shoulder view of a modern knowledge worker tapping into the social grid.

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Content as curriculum?

Learning with e's

Yet, in a post-modernist world where all knowledge has become increasingly mutable and open to challenge, facts go quickly out of date. I was taught in school that there are nine planets orbiting the sun. Being able to think critically and create a professional network will be the core competencies of the 21st Century knowledge worker.

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Investment banking nostalgia

Jay Cross

The Knowledge Web , 5/2000 (Merrill Lynch) “Technology is the driver of the New Economy, and human capital is its fuel. Finding, attracting, and retaining knowledge workers will be mission-critical. Intellectual Capital for the Knowledge Economy , Proprietary Higher Education, 1/2000, Sun Trust.

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The Importance of Managerial Leaders in the 21st Century

Training Industry

When one has all five virtues together, each appropriate to its function, then one can be a leader” (Sun Tzu). With mushrooming numbers of knowledge workers, there is a greater need for managerial leaders than ever before, because these workers appreciate working with soft leaders, not under bosses.