4, Winter 2003. For example, McCall et al. 1988) found that of thirty-five managerial job skills (for example, negotiating skills), managers developed thirty of them through informal learning (for example, job assignments). Informal Learning and the Transfer of Learning: How Managers Develop Proficiency. Michael D. MORE >>

In 2003 I posted a few articles online on open source movements and learning: Open source p.I , Open Source p.II , and Why we should share learning material. On February 8, I’ll be delivering a talk at TEDxEdmonton’s event Rethinking Open Source Culture. have benefitted enormously from open learning. I’m not a programmer. MORE >>

For example, in a paper written in 1930, economist John Maynard Keynes wrote : “We are being afflicted with a new disease of which some readers may not yet have heard the name, but of which they will hear a great deal in the years to come - namely, technological unemployment.  The Watson Challenge was an exhibition Jeopardy! There are only 1.2 MORE >>

As Andy McAfee remarked when United Technologies laid off workers, even though its stock was at an all time high and sales had increased by 35% – “I simply want to point out that if this example is part of any larger trend, then we cannot rely on economic growth to fix our current problems of unemployment or underemployment.” MORE >>

From 2003 to today its staff in India has risen from 7,000 to 75,000, whereas its US workforce has fallen by 30,000 to 100,000. Shifting this into consumer space, for example with Bloomberg BusinessWeek, can feed their core business model. It was a fantastic discussion which covered a lot of territory. IBM illustrates this. MORE >>