The word Demand at first glance seems pretty simple. A phrase like “I demand your attention” makes it appears to mean a strong want or desire. Demand in financial terms has a different meaning though and one I think is more accurate than a mere want. Demand in a transactional context is the ability and willingness to pay for goods […]
Demand for Change Takes More Than Just Want of It. Read More »
Recently I read some excellent work by Julie Dirksen in her book Design for How People Learn. She dug deeper into designing for habit because habitual behaviors free up cognitive energy for other tasks. I wondered then about how this might help people who have tried to “get into” social but just couldn’t make it
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Last evening I hosted a webinar for the 70:20:10 forum. This organization works to help people and organizations shift to an organizational framework which supports and enables informal and social learning opportunities along with formal learning for the betterment of the workers themselves and the bottom line of the organization. The topic of my webinar
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Real knowledge does not exist within us but between us, in our conversations is something I’ve felt for a long time. So with that, if we want to create more knowledge, we need to create more conversations. In principle it’s that easy. However the practice, although simple, is much harder to do. To create conversations we must understand
Over the past few years, blessed by rich experiences and conversation, my beliefs and practices started to change. I no longer saw organizational learning as something unique, I was seeing it as a part of a whole, working in synchronicity with all other elements of an organization. I have come to see learning as a
