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Henry’s manifesto lays out ten things they do which I’m going to reproduce here. 1. Trust your people Step out of approval. Instead, pre-approve and focus on supporting your people. 2. Make your people feel good Make this the focus of management. 3. Give freedom within clear guidelines People want to know what is expected of them. But they want freedom to find the best way to achieve their goals. 4. Be open and transparent More information means more people can take responsibility. 5. Recruit for attitude, train for skill Instead of qualifications and experience, recruit on attitude and potential ability 6. Celebrate mistakes Create a no-blame culture. 7. Community: create mutual benefit Have a positive impact on the world and build your organisation too. 8. Love work, get a life The world, and your job, needs you well rested, well nourished and well supported. 9. Select managers who are good at managing Make sure your people are supported by somebody who is good at doing that, and... - Jay Cross

Marcia’s Biography Principal of SensifyWork, Marcia Conner advises executives in some of the world’s largest companies to put collaborative technologies into action. She aligns social strategies with corporate culture to speed innovation, inform decision-making, and invigorate an organization’s value chain. The collaborative tools Marcia uses introduce ideas in quick bursts, in the flow of work, equipping people to tap the collective brainpower of the larger community in extraordinary ways. - Jay Cross

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The Chronicle Wired Blog asked “What happens when you invite the whole world to an online class?”  The result last summer was eduMOOC – a class about “Online Learning Today… and Tomorrow” with more than 2,500 registered participants in 70 countries and a plethora of wikis, blogs, tweets, panels, discussions and more. The MOOC offers the opportunity for service - Jay Cross

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In 2008, nef was commissioned by the UK Government’s Foresight Project on Mental Capital and Well-being to review the inter-disciplinary work of over 400 scientists from across the world. The aim was to identify a set of evidence-based actions to improve well-being, which individuals would be encouraged to build into their daily lives. As an illustration of how Government action can be explicitly directed towards improving well-being, this page briefly sets out the five evidence-based ways to well-being and the sorts of policy interventions which could help to enable them. - Jay Cross

Why does this matter? Because by learning how to control our mentality, we may be able to deliberately reshape our neural pathways and rewire our brains to make ourselves more successful and fulfilled. In other words, shape your brain and you can shape your life. Practice and Thinking Rewire the Brain - Jay Cross

brilliant satire ? or can you call it that if it's all re--mix? - Jay Cross

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Learning an instrument from scratch can be a daunting task.  Before we start on the long road of refining our musical skills we all have the end result in mind.  This might be anything from solo violinist with the London Symphony Orchest - Jay Cross

here’s how I write a blog post: Use simple words – don’t try to use fancy vocabulary as it makes blog posts harder to read and understand. As a general rule of thumb, use vocabulary that a 5th grader can understand. Use the word “you” – instead of using the word “we” or “them” in your blog posts, use the word “you”. By doing this, what I’m doing is trying to make you feel like it’s just you and me, as if we were sitting down at a café for a cup of coffee. Write how-to posts – people like posts that can teach them something. How-to posts are the perfect way of doing this. My first blog was a top 100 blog on the Internet according to Technorati - Jay Cross

Smashwords is an ebook site where you can buy and sell ebooks in various formats. As an author, you can load your products onto the site for free (Smashwords takes 15% of sales), and it will convert your document into the various formats for you. Brilliant! This takes a lot of time and effort from us creative types who don’t want to spend days reformatting. - Jay Cross

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These pre-date the net but are fundamental. It's a peak inside the minds of people who grew up having to read stuff like... ...The Hidden Persuaders, first published in 1957, Packard explores the use of consumer motivational research and other psychological techniques, including depth psychology andsubliminal tactics, by advertisers to manipulate expectations and induce desire for products, particularly in the American postwar era. He identified eight "compelling needs" that advertisers promise products will fulfill. According to Packard these needs are so strong that people are compelled to buy products to satisfy them. The book also explores the manipulative techniques of promoting politicians to the electorate. The book questions the morality of using these techniques. The primary variables are the list, the offer, the format, and creative. Of these, the list exerts the most leverage. Minimum order quantity from a list is generally 5,000. Names will cost ten to fifteen cents each.... - Jay Cross

Commentpress is an open source theme and plugin for the WordPress blogging engine that allows readers to comment paragraph by paragraph in the margins of a text. Annotate, gloss, workshop, debate: with Commentpress you can do all of these things on a finer-grained level, turning a document into a conversation. It can be applied to a fixed document (paper/essay/book etc.) or to a running blog. - Jay Cross

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In Silicon Valley, a community of circuit designers meets for a lively debate about the merits of two different designs developed by one of the participants. Huddling together over the circuit diagrams, they analyze possible faults, discuss issues of efficiency, propose alternatives, tease out each other's assumptions, and make the case for their view. In Boston, a group of social workers who staff a help line meet to discuss knotty client problems, express sympathy as they discuss difficulties, probe to understand each other's feelings, and gently offer suggestions. Their meetings are often deeply challenging and sometimes highly emotional. The fact-driven, sometimes argumentative, meetings of the Silicon Valley circuit designers are extremely different from the compassionate meetings of the social workers in Boston. But despite their differences, the circuit designers' and social workers' communities are both vibrant and full of life. Their energy is palpable to both the regular... - Jay Cross

What field is that? What discipline? What category of knowledge? Is there any one student who is likely to be an expert across all of them? Additionally, almost every class entails doing as well as talking. The walls of the classroom are to be violated. Get us out of here! Get us away! The final exams are collaborative, multimedia works. What is the pedagogical goal in such mixed and merged classes? The goal is to explore. We hear a lot about the value of failure and giving students the confidence to fail, but I’m increasingly thinking that is one of those taboo words that gives and takes away at the same time. “It’s okay to fail” is almost always said in a voice that implies defensiveness, caution, bravado. What if we aim lower and higher and switch that: “It’s okay to explore.” There is no negative valence built into the word “explore.” According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word goes back to the Renaissance, and medieval French, and means to investigate and examine, to... - Jay Cross

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add integrative learning. 2x2 model. stuck in academic mould but adds to background - Jay Cross

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learning can be seen as a dynamic behavioural process of interaction and exchange among work unit members (Kozlowski and Ilgen, 2006 - Jay Cross

Erbaut. Informal learning. Academic. Good models. - Jay Cross

Money can’t buy happiness. Happiness results from how you feel about things, not how things really are. Harvard’s Daniel Gilbert asks you to imagine two people. One wins $58 million in the lottery - Jay Cross

Reference: Advanced Operators for Web Search Updated: October 21, 2011 Here, in one place, are all of the currently documented advanced search operators for web search.  Note that Scholar, Groups, etc. may have some unique operators listed elsewhere. Also note that some operators come in pairs (e.g., allinanchor along with inanchor: ).  We’ve written about them together rather than having two entries for the same kind of operator.  Also, we followed the square brackets convention where a query is surrounded by square brackets.  When doing the query, you wouldn’t actually use the square brackets in your query.  (Although it won’t hurt anything either...)   __________________________________ - Jay Cross