The Next New Thing

Today I take off on an exciting journey, to join the thought leaders and star analysts at Altimeter Group, as a partner focused on enterprise 2.0, collaborative culture, and how organizations can learn nonstop. As writing my third book, The New Social Learning, drew to a close this spring, I knew it was time to [...]

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Create a Learning Culture

Companies that value learning outperform those that don’t. A study by independent research firm McBassi & Company shows that it pays to invest in people-focused practices including building learning capacity, knowledge accessibility, and professional development. Institutions that demonstrate the greatest commitment to their human capital seem to enjoy the greatest financial rewards. Begin by asking [...]

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A Seeing/Believing Gap

What you see may be only a fraction of what’s there. To learn more, look beyond what you expect.

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Nobody can…

You can’t manage knowledge. Nobody can. What you can do is to manage the environment in which knowledge can be created, discovered, captured, shared, distilled, validated, transferred, adopted, adapted and applied. — Chris Collison and Geoff Parcell, Learning to Fly (via Sahana Chattopadhyay @sahana2082) Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on FacebookBuzz it upshare via RedditShare [...]

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Social Media Counts

from Garys Social Media Count

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Hubs and Spokes

In 1995 I published a whitepaper entitled, “Learning: The Critical Technology.” In it, I made a simple claim: Organizations only learn through individuals who learn. Individuals must learn for organizations to progress. At the time, online learning (not even called “eLearning” back then) was taking off and all eyes were on the technology without much [...]

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