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metamodernity
Harold Jarche
JULY 8, 2019
To an older culture, a newer one often looks amoral, as morality guides older cultures. To a newer culture, older cultures appear to be primitive, lacking complexity. But each culture has its pros and cons.
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the challenge of the network era
Harold Jarche
JULY 1, 2019
“There’s no room for argument about whether hate-filled internet message boards encourage real-world violence: they do, and none more so than 8chan. It normalises racism, misogyny, and extremism – and helps turn nightmarish, loud-mouthed talk of action into reality.”
hybrid sailors
Harold Jarche
JUNE 23, 2019
According to The Atlantic 2019-07 , the US Navy has been piloting a new way of manning its Littoral Combat class ships, which are modular by design. The crew are all multi-purpose, with several roles onboard and always learning new tasks. They operate with one-fifth the crew size of a regular ship.
the dark side of communities
Harold Jarche
JULY 3, 2019
Communities play a significant role in how we relate to others and perceive ourselves. I am a member of several online communities and manage one myself — the perpetual beta coffee club. Communities are more than social networks.
status update on society
Harold Jarche
MAY 22, 2019
Many of the changes we face today are similar to a time when a new communications technology came along and changed the face of Europe — print. The Protestant Reformation saw the rise of religious wars, which were later followed by the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment.
What is innovation?
Harold Jarche
MAY 13, 2019
In writing almost 100 posts on innovation since 2007, it’s time to put the core observations together into a cohesive narrative. Here goes. Innovation is fifteen different things to fifteen different people.
our learning blueprint
Harold Jarche
JULY 11, 2019
“Culture is an emergent property of human groups, a new property of the whole not manifested in the parts themselves. And it arises from humans having the brains and social systems that allow for retaining and exchanging ideas. Human culture also accumulates.
beyond a binary society
Harold Jarche
JULY 15, 2019
Binary thinking is a lower level form of cognitive understanding, as put forward by Kieran Egan , which he calls Mythic Thinking. More complex forms of thinking are: Romantic, Philosophic, and Ironic. But binary, or mythic thinking, is an easy sell.
Internet Time Alliance Award 2019
Harold Jarche
JULY 5, 2019
The Internet Time Alliance Award, in memory of Jay Cross , is presented to a workplace learning professional who has contributed in positive ways to the field of Informal Learning and is reflective of Jay’s lifetime of work.
mediated perceptions
Harold Jarche
JULY 12, 2019
Every fortnight I curate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds. For years, a small hand lettered sign hung on the West wall of McLuhan’s Centre for Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto.
working collaboratively and learning cooperatively
Harold Jarche
APRIL 9, 2019
Improving Organizational Performance. Organizational performance improvement is comprised of reducing errors and increasing insights, according to Gary Klein.
social learning is innate
Harold Jarche
APRIL 22, 2019
Social learning is a key theme of mine because imitation is how we learn as a species. Social learning is best explained by Albert Bandura, recognized as the most eminent psychologist of the modern era.
what it’s all about
Harold Jarche
FEBRUARY 19, 2019
Three things are essential for meaningful work in the network era — diversity, learning, and trust. Diversity. While there is much talk about information overload, it has never been easier for us to find diverse opinions, experiences, and perspectives.
education does not destroy creativity
Harold Jarche
FEBRUARY 10, 2019
There is a certain irony that the most popular TED Talk — Do schools kill creativity? — is seriously questioned in a TEDx talk over a decade later. Ken Robinson’s talk on creativity has had over 55 million views. Basically he says that our schools suck the creativity out of children.
I heard the news today …
Harold Jarche
JUNE 28, 2019
Every fortnight I curate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds. “A A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.” David Bohm, via @cogden.
toward a network society
Harold Jarche
FEBRUARY 27, 2019
Our current triform society is based on families/communities, a public sector, and a private market sector. But this form, dominated by Markets is unable to deal with the complexities we face globally — climate change, pollution, populism/fanaticism, nuclear war, etc.
the universal mother
Harold Jarche
FEBRUARY 18, 2019
Umair Haque has written what some might consider a controversial article on why AOC [US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] short-circuits the conservative mind and why the universal mother is the antidote to the authoritarian father.
sensemaking in a networked world
Harold Jarche
APRIL 8, 2019
It’s a networked world. As we become more connected we should not be cutting out social media, instead we should be using them in smarter ways so that we are sensemaking beyond the outrage. Don’t teach people how to fish.
learning in complexity and chaos
Harold Jarche
JANUARY 21, 2019
Most of our current work structures are designed to address complicated situations, such as constructing a building, launching a campaign, or designing a piece of equipment. But more of our challenges are complex and cannot be solved in a standard way — inequality, refugees, populism, racism.
finding and sharing information
Harold Jarche
APRIL 11, 2019
One of the challenges we face in our professional and personal lives is making sense of the flow of information that passes by us each day and then aligning that with our current priorities and challenges.
beyond government and markets
Harold Jarche
MARCH 12, 2019
The key to our transformation toward a network society is citizen sensemaking. The thinking that got us into our current state of affairs will not get us out. Hierarchical leadership, even in democratic governments, is inadequate for the complexity of a networked society.
extracting human value
Harold Jarche
FEBRUARY 14, 2019
Automation + Capitalism makes for a perfect storm that many of us will not weather.
“the strategic and purposeful production of ignorance”
Harold Jarche
MAY 2, 2019
“ You will not achieve an informed public simply by making sure that high quality content is publicly available and presuming that credibility is enough while you wait for people to come find it.
the status quo
Harold Jarche
MAY 28, 2019
In understanding the shift , I wrote that as we make this transition — from a market-dominated to a network-dominated society — the confusion of post-modernism clouds our vision of a positive future.
connected thinking
Harold Jarche
MARCH 20, 2019
“… it’s easy, and it’s seductive, to assume that data is really knowledge. Or that information is, indeed, wisdom. Or that knowledge can exist without data. And how easy, and how effortlessly, one can parade and disguise itself as another.
saving democracy
Harold Jarche
DECEMBER 17, 2018
Why do younger people generally think it is less essential to live in a democracy? Perhaps it’s because the times are changing. The first democracies (USA, France, and gradually the UK) emerged about 300 years after the invention of the printing press.
our mediated lives
Harold Jarche
MAY 31, 2019
Every fortnight I curate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds. Can we all please stop using Medium now? “Just so we are clear. Medium takes your content, rolls it up into a pretty SEO friendly package for themselves and sells it.
curiosity and resolve
Harold Jarche
NOVEMBER 25, 2018
Jony Ive, Chief Design Officer at Apple, was the first recipient of the Stephen Hawking Fellowship at Cambridge Union. His lecture to a crowd of about 400 was covered by The Independent — Apple designer Jony Ive explains how ‘teetering towards the absurd’ helped him make the iPhone.
three pillars of leadership
Harold Jarche
MAY 8, 2019
“Hierarchical authority is much more effective at securing compliance than it is in fostering genuine commitment.” ” — Peter Senge. Senge and his team have identified three types of leadership in organizations. Local level — to experiment.
liberating meetings
Harold Jarche
JUNE 25, 2019
In meetings, bloody meetings I covered some common issues with how meetings are conducted and also provided some ways to address these. Another form is the silent meeting , put forth by David Gasca at Twitter and used at Amazon as well. These meetings are based on the common phenomena that most attendees do not read material in advance and that a slideshow is not the best way to convey complex information.
learning with complexity
Harold Jarche
APRIL 25, 2019
Two technologies — machine learning , and the internet — are changing our understanding of the world by showing that we really cannot understand large scale complexity. “We don’t use these technologies because they are huge, connected, and complex. We use them because they work.
we don’t need another hero
Harold Jarche
MARCH 1, 2019
People in leadership positions are very busy — too busy it seems. “CEOs attend an endless stream of meetings, each of which can be totally different from the one before and the one that follows. Their sheer number and variety is a defining feature of the top job.
“taking responsibility for our own work and learning”
Harold Jarche
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
“To a great extent PKM [personal knowledge management] is about shifting responsibility for learning and knowledge sharing from a company to individuals and this is the greatest challenge for both sides.
self-perception of knowledge
Harold Jarche
MARCH 11, 2019
Sensemaking does not have to be a complicated affair. I have recently had several conversations with people who have simplified their sensemaking processes — using fewer tools and streamlining processes — quite often accepting the fact they won’t capture everything.
unintended consequences
Harold Jarche
MARCH 10, 2019
“Welcome to Magic School. Here is your schedule.” ” “Thanks! But…” “Yes?” ” “This is just ‘Ethics’ and ‘Human rights’ and things like that.” ” “Correct, that’s the first year curriculum.”
work in 2018
Harold Jarche
DECEMBER 24, 2018
When we look at the future of work, the loss of current jobs, and the effects of automation, we should use a compass to guide us, not a list of what the skills of the future may look like.
connecting leadership
Harold Jarche
APRIL 4, 2019
What is leadership ? In the past year I have written many posts on the subject from a variety of perspectives. Much of it is about ‘connected leadership’ — where people must be both teachers and learners. Neither training programs, nor even coaching, are enough.
the democratization of media
Harold Jarche
JANUARY 3, 2019
“You’re just hearing about it [microaggression] more, because the people who have been suffering it for a long time have decided that they aren’t going to suffer it anymore. The disempowered recognize that it’s time for them to be heard.
beyond the solutions at hand
Harold Jarche
APRIL 29, 2019
“There is a need to deal with the problem independent of the solutions at hand. We have a tendency to define the problem in terms of the solutions we already have. We fail most often not because we fail to solve the problem we face, but because we fail to face the right problem.
sixteen years
Harold Jarche
JUNE 9, 2019
You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. Saint Peter, don’t you call me ’cause I can’t go. I owe my soul to the company store. Sixteen Tons. Last week marked sixteen years as a freelancer.
first we kill the jobs
Harold Jarche
OCTOBER 22, 2018
Donald Clark shows how WildFire , a machine-augmented instructional content development system, saved significant time and money to develop a global training program. “We used an AI tool to deliver a project to a large multinational (TUI) with £16 billion in revenue.
mindful finds
Harold Jarche
JUNE 14, 2019
Every fortnight I curate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds. “A A writer ought not to be an opinion-machine … The job of the writer is to make us see the world as it is, full of many different claims and parts and experiences.” — Susan Sontag.
cooperative leadership
Harold Jarche
NOVEMBER 19, 2018
Last week I hosted a video chat on the changing nature of leadership. Part of the discussion was on the changing needs of society as the dominant organizing forms shift — from Tribes to Institutions to Markets, and now to Networks.
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