More word fun with Jay Cross. This post is a continuation from last month’s post part 1. Learn. Gain the capacity to do something. Learning styles. Faulty notion that it matters whether we’re visual learners, verbal learners, or kinesthetic learners. Research found it’s total bunk. Lecture. Ineffective, one-way delivery of content.... more
The previous post on this topic defined your Workscape as a systems view of where work is done and where people hone the skills they need to add value. It’s relationships and culture and secret sauce. It’s the organization as organism. This post suggests how to nurture your Workscape —... more
Your Workscape is everything in your organization except the training department. It’s where work is done and where people hone the skills they need to add value. It’s the biggest frame of the big picture. It’s relationships and culture and secret sauce. It’s the organization as organism. To prosper, you... more
Curation can boost your profit and help your people grow. It can save millions, reduce frustration, and boost the velocity of information in your organization. It starts in a gallery. You expect the curator of an art gallery to know the collection and to: search out the best items select... more
What is a “beta version”? “We could take beta off all of our products tomorrow, and we wouldn’t actually have accomplished anything…If it’s on there for five years because we think we’re going to make major changes for five years, that’s fine.” Google co-founder Larry Page Beta is the last,... more
American business people attend 11,000,000 business meetings every day and half of it’s a waste of time. Knowledge workers spend three hours a day in meetings. Senior executives spend more. Four out of five of us have brought other work to do during a meeting. One in ten of us... more
Our last post advised that you to avoid words like training and learner when talking with senior executives. Now let’s turn to what you should be talking about. Speak the language of business. Couch whatever you’re proposing as a way to save time, increase revenue, cut costs, or improve efficiency.... more
I’m thrilled to introduce the first blog post from the famous Jay Cross. Jay needs no introduction and we are really excited to have him on board. Twenty years ago, the start-up I was working with hired “the world’s best presentation coach” to help our executive team raise a few million... more
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