Each day I encounter an article or vendor selling simplicity. Just today I crossed paths with titles like “elearning simplified” and “Simple Marketing Strategies”, and “simplifying your life” to name a few. It appears the market is crying for less complexity or people are selling the notion that all has become so very difficult today. […]
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Let’s take a moment and look at the idealistic, hopeful “promises” (the promise so many still speak of and fight for at least those who haven’t gone “corporate” so to speak) we saw emerge from around 2007 and compare them against the “common reality” we see in many organizations today. Promise: Organization-wide transparency & openness
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I’ve always loved history. I studied it in school and the prospect of a career in history led me to be a Social Studies teacher for 8 years. In my first 3 years I was a miserable failure. I lectured way too much, drew up regurgitate the facts assignments, used a textbook exclusively, and watched
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If AI will grow to dwarf our intelligence capability, the general (maybe irrational) fear is that AI will not tolerate the inconsistent, illogical, highly emotive humans and prefer to stomp us out like a pesky insect. Maybe I’m naive but I just don’t buy into this narrative. I feel that so many cultural references have
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Do we live in a magical age or do we merely live among many magicians? working out loud requires guidance “micro-learning” is a new approach for a new age the year you were born determines your values and needs community is any group of people using social tools we learn differently in the last
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