David Kelly, inspired by a Lifehacker series, is promoting “How I Work”. Keep an eye on David’s Blog as he links to others in this series. For now here’s how I roll …errr I mean work. Location: Syracuse, NY Current Gig: Manager, Corporate Training Current mobile device: iPhone 4s Current computer: Dell Latitude (sigh) One […]
This morning I got out for my first ride of the spring. Its been a long winter and so some of my mechanics and cadence were off and I forgot my riding glasses but it didn’t take too long to comeback (it’s like riding a bike…heh). If you do cycling at all then your probably
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Innovation is the engine to advance organizations today and although conversation is key to spurring creative thinking and innovative action, it is naive to think that just having more conversations where information is shared and people collaborate is enough. These conversations, often spontaneous, can be unconsciously valuable but we should strive for dialog if we
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In a previous post I explored the idea that a form of learned helplessness is to blame for executives and L&D’s inability to accept and embrace social & informal learning in their organizations. Simply put, my argument was that after years of “control” by formal learning (public education, higher education and training organizations) there may
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This is what I was listed as on the Open Sesame Blog out of 100 Ed Tech Must Follows back in December. The number or even being on a list is thoughtful and appreciated of course but insignificant really as we live in what Euan Semple refers to as an ephemeral meritocracy . All-in-all its nice
