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innovating with pkm
Harold Jarche
SEPTEMBER 12, 2020
Last month I published the latest e-book in the perpetual beta series (163 pages) which is focused on actionable insights for working and learning in a networked world.
Harold Jarche
when training is the wrong solution
Harold Jarche
OCTOBER 8, 2020
Training is too often the proverbial hammer in search of nails. It’s an easy check mark to show that action has been taken, assuming that improving individual skills is the core issue that needs to be addressed. But training does not improve diversity.
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cynefin and pkm
Harold Jarche
OCTOBER 21, 2020
I am following up from thoughts on the cynefin framework and how it has informed my own work since 2009.
working smarter with pkm — transcripts
Harold Jarche
AUGUST 24, 2020
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 videos and the transcripts, for those who prefer to read rather than watch, are here. Working Smarter with PKM (3 minute videos). Part 1.
cynefin
Harold Jarche
JULY 19, 2020
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 — the same year as The Cluetrain Manifesto.
dwindling jobs
Harold Jarche
OCTOBER 18, 2020
In Only Humans Need Apply , the authors note that one phenomenon of machine automation and augmentation is a decrease in entry-level jobs. “We seem to have automated away the first few rungs of the traditional career ladder.
revisiting cooperation
Harold Jarche
SEPTEMBER 27, 2020
“collaboration means ‘working together’ That’s why you see it in market economies. markets are based on quantity and mass. cooperation means ‘sharing’ That’s why you see it in networks.
debunking handbook 2020
Harold Jarche
OCTOBER 14, 2020
The Debunking Handbook 2020 has just been published and is an excellent free guide to address the mass amounts of misinformation, disinformation, and propaganda that flow through our digital communications everyday and then influence real life behaviours.
perpetual beta 2020
Harold Jarche
AUGUST 3, 2020
For 16 years my primary sensemaking medium has been this blog. This is where half-baked thoughts get tested, changed, and recombined. They reflect my interactions on social media, experiences through professional engagements, and conversations with colleagues around the world.
engaging with reality
Harold Jarche
OCTOBER 16, 2020
Every fortnight, since 2009, I curate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds. EmilyHaber [German Ambassador to USA] — “Hannah Arendt, a German Jew, political theorist and philosopher, was born on this day in 1906.
decision-making and trustworthiness
Harold Jarche
SEPTEMBER 28, 2020
In the book Systems Thinking: Managing chaos and complexity , J. Gharajedaghi provides an example of decision-making by indigenous people of North America.
supporting workplace performance
Harold Jarche
OCTOBER 9, 2020
Many workplace performance issues cannot be solved through training, such as: Poor communications. Unclear expectations (such as policies & guidelines). Inadequate resources. Unclear performance measures. Rewards and consequences are not directly linked to the desired performance.
sensemaking in uncertainty
Harold Jarche
AUGUST 30, 2020
When the pandemic broke out, the situation was generally chaotic and the best response was to act firmly, such as establish a lock-down as soon as possible. “In the chaotic domain, a leader’s immediate job is not to discover patterns but to stanch the bleeding.
top tools 2020
Harold Jarche
AUGUST 13, 2020
Every year, Jane Hart asks, “What are the most popular, useful, valuable, digital tools for learning?” ” and this year has added, “How has lockdown affected the tools used for learning and development in 2020?”
the future of schooling post-coronavirus
Harold Jarche
AUGUST 17, 2020
I have been asked to present some issues on the future of schooling post-covid for a group of educators in Australia in early September. Any feedback to this post would be appreciated. In my research on schooling, I have found that the education system is a lagging indicator.
weird stuff
Harold Jarche
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
Fiction sometimes explains reality in a much better way. “Corvallis had asked the usual questions about job title and job description. Richard [CEO] had answered simply, “Weird stuff.”
connecting knowledge
Harold Jarche
SEPTEMBER 5, 2020
In early March I wrote how I was making sense of our digital world at the beginning of this pandemic. Some of my practices have held but after six months, some have changed.
sense before stories
Harold Jarche
AUGUST 12, 2020
Beware the storytellers and praise the sensemakers. In story skepticism (2016) I suggested that while storytelling skills may be important, a critical network era skill will be the ability to deconstruct stories. When it comes to this pandemic, there is no shortage of stories.
stories for the network age
Harold Jarche
JULY 30, 2020
The TIMN model [Tribes + Institutions + Markets + Networks] developed by David Ronfeldt has influenced much of my own work in looking at how we are moving toward a network society and must create organizational forms that are beyond national governments and beyond markets.
hopes and fears
Harold Jarche
OCTOBER 2, 2020
Every fortnight I curate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds. Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay.” ” — Maya Angelou. Tom_Peters — “Sunday reminder to leaders.
six months later
Harold Jarche
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
Every fortnight I curate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds. Dr. Dipshikha Ghosh — “ A 28yo woman died of post-covid myocarditis today.
power shifts
Harold Jarche
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
“The illiterate of the 21st Century are not those who cannot read and write but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.” ?Alvin Alvin Toffler, I read Toffler’s book, Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth, and Power at the Edge of the 21st Century , shortly after it was published in 1990.
we need better learners
Harold Jarche
AUGUST 10, 2020
The global pandemic is a wake up call and an opportunity. It has shocked our triform (Tribes +Institutions +Markets) economy and society. Over the past two decades we have seen many experiments and movements toward a more equitable, sustainable way of living on this planet (+Networks).
chocolate over broccoli
Harold Jarche
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Every fortnight I curate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds. csessums — “My new favorite definition of Gamification — the process of pouring behaviorist chocolate over instructionist broccoli. Via @bjfr.”
zoom is not the problem — meetings are
Harold Jarche
MAY 11, 2020
When all you have is Zoom, every work-from-home office looks like an endless face-to-face video call. I have been working remotely since 2003. Video calls have been a regular part of my work and I have used pretty well every platform available. In the early days my favourite platform was Marratech , until they were bought by Google and some of the technology created Hangouts. But video communication was only part of my work.
a trusted space for learning
Harold Jarche
MAY 25, 2020
In 2006 I proposed that we should develop an educational system of small schools, loosely joined : With access to the Internet a one-room school would have to reach out to the rest of the world and not be wrapped in the confines of the industrial school. Schools would have to seek out partnerships and not be isolated islands. Communities of learning online could be developed to link learners in several schools and even in different countries.
push-button education
Harold Jarche
AUGUST 21, 2020
Every fortnight I curate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds. “Any idiot can impose and exercise control. It takes genius to elicit freedom and release creativity.” ” — @DeeWHock.
an exploratory
Harold Jarche
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
On 30 September I will be participating in a series of exploratory sessions with Dave Snowden — learning & sense-making in uncertainty and continuous flux and I have discussed some of the concepts previously in sensemaking in uncertainty.
non-violence + 3.5%
Harold Jarche
JULY 27, 2020
How many people does it take to change an organization or a society? Minority groups need 25% to influence the majority in a society. But it only takes 10% if the group is committed with unshakeable belief.
writing in your own voice
Harold Jarche
AUGUST 5, 2020
A good portion of the workforce has now had a taste of distributed work (I prefer this term to ‘remote work’ which has a connotation of a central location and a number of remote workplaces).
beyond civil society, governments, and markets
Harold Jarche
APRIL 29, 2020
Binary thinking is an easy sell. It appeals to our emotions which we developed as children. Binary thinking blinds us. It’s not black and white, or right and wrong, or even Left and Right. Human society is many shades along various spectra. But often politicians and others tell us it’s a simple, binary choice — ”You’re either with us, or with the terrorists.’ ’ ‘ — President George W. Bush (2001).
our wake-up call
Harold Jarche
JUNE 7, 2020
On 6 June 1944 the First Canadian Army landed at Normandy. It had never been tested in battle as a formation. The complications of drills in England had been replaced by the complexity of war and the chaos of battle. By the end of August, two brigade commanders and five commanding officers had been removed as they were deemed unsuitable.
closed and crowded
Harold Jarche
AUGUST 7, 2020
Every fortnight I curate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds. “Only a few know how much one must know, to know how little one knows.” ” —Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976).
prebunking the conspiracy theorists
Harold Jarche
MAY 26, 2020
In confronting the post-truth machines I looked at different types of fake news and what could be done to counter them — Propaganda, Disinformation, Clickbait, and Conspiracy Theories. I mentioned that the researcher danah boyd defines agnotology as — “the strategic and purposeful production of ignorance”. Today, as ever, many forces are at play promoting agnotology — from governments, to corporations, to social movements. This ignorance in our society can easily lead to conspiracy theories.
entangled thinking
Harold Jarche
APRIL 7, 2020
If this pandemic is teaching us anything, it’s that experts disagree, nobody has all the answers, and we are mostly making things up as we go. In a crisis it is important to act but even more importantly to learn as we take action. Add in the human factor that some people are always trying to take advantage of any situation and we start to float in a liquid surround of misinformation, propaganda, half-truths, and sometimes utter crap of the post-truth machines.
meaningful finds
Harold Jarche
JULY 24, 2020
Every fortnight I curate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds. Rosalyn Yalow — “The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you’re learning, you’re not old.”
making sense of our digital world
Harold Jarche
MARCH 2, 2020
The spread of the novel corona virus COVID-19 is having a massive effect on our connected world. Schools are being shut, quarantines are in effect, and airlines have cancelled certain flight routes. So where are we getting our information from? If it’s from Facebook then some secret algorithm designed to maximize advertising revenue is deciding what we see. This does not make for a well-informed citizenry. There are also forces at play that want people to panic.
learning in the flow of work
Harold Jarche
FEBRUARY 23, 2020
Networked humans in a connected society: Our increasing inter-connectedness illuminates the need for cooperation. Simple work keeps getting automated, but still needs human oversight. Complicated work gets automated, outsourced, or contracted to the lowest cost of doing business. Complex work can provide a unique business advantage — but complex work is difficult to copy. Creative work can find new opportunities — but creative work is often intangible and constantly evolves.
after the s**t has hit the fan
Harold Jarche
MARCH 18, 2020
The proverbial s**t has hit the fan. Were you ready? Did you have a knowledge network that you could depend upon to make sense of your digital world ? “When the s**t hits the fan you want your inside information flow to be at least as fast as what is happening outside.
learning about machine learning
Harold Jarche
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
Why is machine learning [ML] important for your business? If you work at Nokia, your Chairman can explain it to you in a one hour presentation he developed over six months of research. Risto Siilasmaa helped make his network smarter. Everyone needs to know if ML can help with their business problems, but first they have to understand the basics, says Siilasmaa. Digitization has created an explosion of information. ML is based on logistic regression , which is fairly easy to understand.
time to change the world
Harold Jarche
APRIL 27, 2020
Universities may be going online temporarily, or perhaps permanently, but the curriculum does not seem to have changed. What should be taught at university is how to learn once out of university. In 2013, Jane Hart and I worked with Bangor University in Wales to incorporate personal knowledge mastery into the Psychology curriculum. We started by working with the faculty: Strategies for using social tools for personal and professional learning.
working smarter
Harold Jarche
JANUARY 19, 2020
For the past several centuries we have used human labour to do what machines cannot. First the machines caught up with us and surpassed humans with their brute force. Now they are surpassing us with their brute intelligence. There is not much more need for machine-like human work which is routine, standardized, or brute. But certain long-term skills can help us connect with our fellow humans in order to learn and innovate — curiosity, sense-making, cooperation, and novel thinking.
a global human sensemaking platform
Harold Jarche
JUNE 15, 2020
The thinking that got us into this mess will not get us out of it. If we are to create a new economic order it has to move beyond civil society, governments, and markets. A quid pro quo between private firms and public authorities will only reinforce the status quo. “A new economic order requires an explicit quid pro quo between private firms and public authorities.
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