Tweet. The network era workplace requires collaboration and cooperation because complex problems cannot be solved alone. Tacit knowledge, that which cannot be codified or put into a database, needs to flow. Social learning, developed through many conversations, enables this flow of tacit knowledge. SocialLearning Wirearchy MORE >>

For a few months now, I’ve been talking to my new neighbors here in California about my old friend Leo Villareal’s proposed epic installation on the Bay Bridge, commemorating the Bridge’s 75th anniversary and the completion of the new East Span in 2013. This would be terrific news. Visually it will be intoxicating, I have no doubt. MORE >>

Scenario planning as a management discipline has a long and rich pedigree. It is just one of a wide variety of tools and processes that have been developed to help executives and organizations build strategies and succeed in an uncertain world. We have summarized that in the following two page document. Click on the image for full-size pdf. MORE >>

Look up a patent at the US Patent Office site, click on “Images” to see the image, and the chances are very good that you’ll get the sense that people are patenting white paper over and over and over again. The images generally do not show up. Example ). Tagged Image File Format (TIFF). or CCITT Group 4 (G4) compression. MORE >>

Dave Cormier made an eloquent case for rhizomatic learning. design meta-learning MORE >>