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moving beyond training
Harold Jarche
JANUARY 12, 2021
Working smarter means that everyone in an organization learns from experience and shares with their colleagues as part of their work. Training is not enough — see the missing half of training.
Harold Jarche
overcome by events
Harold Jarche
JANUARY 19, 2021
I wrote the following in 2009 —. Workplace learning in 2019. Much of the workforce will be distributed in time & space as well as in engagement (part-time, full-time, contract mix). More learning will be do-it-yourself and gathered from online digital resources available for free and fee.
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let’s stop the war of words
Harold Jarche
DECEMBER 19, 2020
A November 2019 article in the British Medical Journal showed how difficult it is to change peoples’ minds, especially with regards to vaccinations. Facts don’t change peoples’ minds. Lesson 2: don’t bring a fact to a narrative fight.
get out to the edges
Harold Jarche
NOVEMBER 28, 2020
In March [ making sense of our digital world ] I wrote that my own understanding of the COVID-19 disease started with centres of networked expertise — WHO , CDC , Public Health Agency of Canada.
a breath of fresh air
Harold Jarche
JANUARY 22, 2021
Every fortnight I curate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds.
best finds of 2020
Harold Jarche
JANUARY 1, 2021
Here are some of the best of my fortnightly Friday’s Finds of 2020. Happy New Year 2021! Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay.” — Maya Angelou. The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.” Ernest Hemingway. “To
retrieving the cooperative imperative
Harold Jarche
JANUARY 20, 2021
The biggest challenges facing us today are climate change and environmental degradation. The current pandemic is a symptom of these situations.
nursing care performance analysis case study
Harold Jarche
JANUARY 24, 2021
This was a presentation I gave to the Canadian Society for Training and Development in 2005. e-Learning and Communities of Practice in Healthcare.
the selfish and the selfless
Harold Jarche
DECEMBER 11, 2020
Every fortnight I curate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds. “If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you’re going to get selfish, ignorant leaders.” ” — George Carlin.
trusted spaces
Harold Jarche
DECEMBER 1, 2020
In my PKM workshops we discuss the differences between communities and networks. This includes the dark sides of communities as well as the constant doubt and outrage on social media.
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.
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.
our crisis in network leadership
Harold Jarche
JANUARY 5, 2021
This pandemic has become a crisis in network leadership. Last June, I wrote — our wake-up call. On 6 June 1944 the First Canadian Army landed at Normandy. It had never been tested in battle as a formation.
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.
What is the Zollman effect?
Harold Jarche
NOVEMBER 11, 2020
In a series of three posts, Jonathan Weisberg explains the Zollman effect. Here are some highlights. What is the Zollman effect? “More information generally means a better chance at discovering the truth, at least from an individual perspective.
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.
an assumption of knowledge
Harold Jarche
JANUARY 8, 2021
Every fortnight I curate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds. “Word of the day is ‘sequaciousness’ (17th century): the blinkered, unreasoning, and slavish following of another, no matter where it leads.”
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.
schooling unbound
Harold Jarche
NOVEMBER 4, 2020
“I know not what answer to give you, but this, that Power always Sincerely, conscientiously, de très bon Foi, believes itself Right.
get out of the office
Harold Jarche
DECEMBER 3, 2020
In one of my first projects as a freelancer 17 years ago, I was brought into an existing client relationship with a hospital network. Our team had been contracted to develop an e-learning program for nursing staff.
moscow rules
Harold Jarche
NOVEMBER 27, 2020
Every fortnight I curate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds. “In the past every village had an idiot, and we could all deal with that. Now the internet is allowing idiots to connect and it is normalising idiocy.”
blocking the trackers
Harold Jarche
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
It’s hard to stay clean in a dirty world. I have been trying to keep my site clean and not help the surveillance capitalists (e.g. Google, Facebook, etc.) to extract data about visitors to this site. I started by getting rid of Google Analytics.
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?”
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.
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.
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.
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.
complexity rules
Harold Jarche
OCTOBER 5, 2020
We live and work in a complex system. Simple, traditional linear models do not work in complex systems. Campbell’s Law is a real thing – people change their behavior to meet targets. These ‘corruption pressures’ often have unintended consequences.
put on your dance shoes
Harold Jarche
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
(Let’s dance) for fear your grace should fall. Let’s dance) for fear tonight is all. David Bowie (1983) Let’s Dance.
carol of the masks
Harold Jarche
DECEMBER 25, 2020
Every fortnight I curate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds and these are the last ones for 2020, a year few of us will forget.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
still standing and learning
Harold Jarche
OCTOBER 27, 2020
I spent the first 21 years of my working life with a regular pay cheque, lots of formal training, and a fairly regular schedule. Leaving the Army I worked at a university and a few years later for an e-learning startup.
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.
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.
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.
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).
a global clown show
Harold Jarche
DECEMBER 16, 2020
In 2007 I was concerned that Facebook was selling personal data. That same year I asked if there could be a public alternative to Facebook By 2010 I had left the platform.
unity, not uniformity
Harold Jarche
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
One hundred years ago, management pioneer Mary Parker Follett wrote that “Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed.”
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.
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