This post is an excerpt from Jane Hart’s recently published Social Learning Handbook 2014.| jarche.com
“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” —Ellen Parr| Harold Jarche
“Work is learning, learning work” — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.| Harold Jarche
A cohort-based online workshop to help professionals work smarter| Harold Jarche
This article appeared in Inside Learning Technologies & Skills Magazine, January 2015| Harold Jarche
This is a retrospective on how my work has been influenced by the Cynefin framework, which I first came across in late 2007, many years after it had been originally published in 1999. It’s interesting to note that this was the same year as The Cluetrain Manifesto which shifted how we think about markets in light of the internet.| Harold Jarche
Month: August 2020 | jarche.com
Writing my essays at university was always a painful process. We were still allowed to write them, though more professors were requiring essays to be submitted typed. My essays were never good because I often left them to the last minute and hand-writing a better version was just too much time and effort. As much as I loved reading and new ideas, I was not a good writer.| Harold Jarche
Last year I wrote that this pandemic has become a crisis in network leadership because understanding what domain of complexity we are dealing with is now an essential requirement for decision-makers. At its outbreak the pandemic was chaotic and required immediate action. Developing vaccines went from complex to complicated. Dealing with people and how various groups reacted to the pandemic oscillated between ordered and unordered domains but has been mostly complex. Clear and simple communic...| Harold Jarche
Creative people are at all levels of an organization, including the janitor, and are not ‘human resources’ but individuals who have the capability of gaining wisdom. What are often referred to as ‘soft skills’ are becoming more important than traditional hard skills. Why is this? First of all, work in networks requires different skills than in controlled hierarchies. Information and knowledge flow faster and new connections are constantly being made. The status quo is temporary. Th...| Harold Jarche
The End of the Market Era| Harold Jarche
The basic premise of the long tail is that there is an equal or perhaps larger market of those willing to buy unpopular items (or services) than all the people who buy the popular items. It goes against traditional wisdom of focusing on items that can be sold many times, as you may be missing an even larger opportunity in the long tail. Instead, the long tail theory is to sell a few things to a few people at a time, but repeat this many times over. Of course the kicker is that it only works i...| Harold Jarche
Continued from: understanding the shift| Harold Jarche
Most people have heard Clay Shirky’s quote that, “It’s not information overload, it’s filter failure.” The professor and author has coined terms such as ‘cognitive surplus’ to explain that we have the mental capacity to do a lot more with our collective intelligence, but too often, societal barriers inhibit us. We are too busy with the day-to-day commute, usually in a deluge of noise from radios, billboards, and news sources, to reflect and consider bigger issues. Getting paid e...| Harold Jarche
Month: December 2019 | jarche.com
Working Smarter with Personal Knowledge Mastery| Harold Jarche
Jane McConnell published her 9th annual report on The Organization in the Digital Age last month. Jane recently posted 10 key findings from the nearly 300 organizations surveyed.| Harold Jarche
post-truth (adjective) Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief. —Oxford Dictionaries| Harold Jarche
I have a series of three 3-minute videos presenting the personal knowledge mastery framework. They are supported by the Working Smarter with PKM field guide. The online workshop provides a more structured and social learning experience.| Harold Jarche
If you don’t use it, you will lose it. Automate what was once a skill-developed process and those skills will decline.| Harold Jarche
“The ignorance of how to use new knowledge stockpiles exponentially.” —Marshall McLuhan| Harold Jarche
Sensemaking is a manual skill, which can be assisted with various tools, but the most important tool is our mind, using good practices.| Harold Jarche