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from training to learning
Harold Jarche
OCTOBER 7, 2019
Harold Jarche
connecting the curious
Harold Jarche
OCTOBER 6, 2019
Why do students often ask — will this be on the test? It’s because they have figured out the game called education. They are told what to study, what is important, and for how long. Each school year they play the game anew.
citizen-learners
Harold Jarche
SEPTEMBER 30, 2019
Crooked Broker Capitalists. Dave Pollard (2007) showed that in a ‘crooked broker society’, an Exploiter oppresses a Desperate Supplier. This unbalanced relationship is reinforced by a Procurer who in turn gouges an Addicted Buyer.
we are dependent on human connection
Harold Jarche
OCTOBER 1, 2019
What we do not know. Our networks are great places for serendipitous connections. But they are not safe places to have deeper conversations or to expose our points of view, I noted last year in coffee, communities, and condescension. The difference between an open social network (e.g.
filter success
Harold Jarche
OCTOBER 14, 2019
Clay Shirky’s statement — “ It’s not information overload, it’s filter failure ” — is an oft-quoted line when discussing online sensemaking.
systems thinking and training
Harold Jarche
SEPTEMBER 27, 2019
Boeing 737 MAX. I read an article in New Republic entitled Crash Course by Maureen Tkacic, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, which describes how “ Boeing’s managerial revolution created the 737 MAX disaster” — resulting in plane crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia.
top tools 2019
Harold Jarche
SEPTEMBER 2, 2019
Since 2007 Jane Hart has asked working professionals for their top tools for learning — TopTools4Learning — and creates three lists from thousands of responses. Top 100 Tools for Personal & Professional Learning. Top 100 Tools for Workplace Learning. Top 100 Tools for Education.
power, sex, laws, and empathy
Harold Jarche
NOVEMBER 15, 2019
Every fortnight I curate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds. “ Leadership is a serious meddling in the lives of others.
cracking the chambers
Harold Jarche
OCTOBER 2, 2019
Thi Nguyen, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Utah Valley University describes two related but distinct phenomena of collective human behaviour — bubbles and chambers. An epistemic bubble is what happens when insiders aren’t exposed to people from the opposite side.
change takes time and effort
Harold Jarche
OCTOBER 8, 2019
The idea that generalists and soft skills are needed in the modern workplace seems to be hitting the mainstream of HR, L&D, etc. I have written about these for the past decade or more, and I think it’s necessary to clarify some of the discussion. Wicked problems need neo-generalists.
the right side of history
Harold Jarche
SEPTEMBER 26, 2019
Why is Greta Thunberg so triggering for certain men? “Because of what she represents. In an age when democracy is under assault, she hints at the emergence of a new kind of power, a convergence of youth, popular protest and irrefutable science.
sensemaking in a liquid world
Harold Jarche
AUGUST 20, 2019
The printing press changed the world. It introduced new forms of expression and enabled better and faster information sharing. Print enabled individual interpretation of the bible and resulted in the questioning of the established Christian church and later the Protestant Reformation.
confronting the post-truth machine
Harold Jarche
JULY 29, 2019
post-truth (adjective) Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief. Oxford Dictionaries. On Twitter, Tim Dickinson described four different types of distributed ‘fake news’.
PKM in action. Part 3
Harold Jarche
AUGUST 14, 2019
In his book, Never Stop Learning , Bradley Staats describes eight elements that make up ‘dynamic learning’ Here are the highlights from a Knowledge at Wharton interview. “a willingness to try things, have them not work out, but learn from that and move on” 2.
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.
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 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.”
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.
co-learning is better than marketing
Harold Jarche
AUGUST 28, 2019
Work is learning, and learning is the work. Marketing, for the most part, is about learning.
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.
meetings, bloody meetings
Harold Jarche
MAY 6, 2019
My introduction to organizing meetings was in the military, where different types of meetings had standard structures. The Orders Format was something any officer could recite from memory.
making space
Harold Jarche
JULY 23, 2019
Sometimes, perhaps too often, we are asking the wrong questions about workplace learning. For instance, we should not be asking how people can work more efficiently. We should be asking what are the best conditions for people to do their work.
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.
banking ideas
Harold Jarche
OCTOBER 4, 2019
Every fortnight I curate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds. White_Owly — “ Unconscious bias hangs out with plausible deniability. I’ve seen them together. They’ll deny it though.
relatedness for knowledge sharing
Harold Jarche
JULY 22, 2019
In the HBR article Why Employees Don’t Share Knowledge with Each Other the authors find three main reasons [ research paper behind a paywall ]. First, people share knowledge when they are autonomously motivated, and not directed to do so, or pressured by peers.
leadership beyond capitalism
Harold Jarche
AUGUST 7, 2019
“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.” Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018).
the workflow of learning
Harold Jarche
NOVEMBER 13, 2019
I was asked today about my sensemaking routine. I try not to talk too much about how I do things because I believe that a practice — like personal knowledge mastery — has to be personal, or it will not last. But perhaps I can give some details to help others find there own way.
insights over processes
Harold Jarche
SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
Process improvement, like Six Sigma, stifles innovation. Process improvement is a tool set, not an overarching or unifying concept for an organization. Process improvement is a means — for certain contexts like manufacturing — and not an end in itself.
adding value with teams
Harold Jarche
SEPTEMBER 11, 2019
In working collaboratively & learning cooperatively I noted that team collaboration requires the transparent sharing of knowledge — using enterprise social networks and other technologies — so that everyone on a team knows what is going on and why. Decisions, and why they were made, are shared.
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.
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.
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.
seeing the value of cooperation
Harold Jarche
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
Nancy Dixon tells a wonderful story about ‘Researcher’s Square’ and the hallway of learning. The whole story is well-worth your time.
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.
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.
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.
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.
PKM in Action. Part 2
Harold Jarche
AUGUST 5, 2019
In PKM in Action Part 1 I gave a few examples of how people practice personal knowledge mastery. A good way of looking at PKM is as a method to improve serendipity, or fortuitous chance encounters. Anne Adrian shared her journey of going online to seek, make sense, and to share knowledge.
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 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.
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.
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