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The Future of the Training Department - Harold JarcheThe latter 20th Century was the golden era of the training department. Before the 20th Century, training per se did not exist outside the special needs of the church and the military. Now the training department may be at the end of its life cycle. Join us for a brief look back at the ...
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Group-centric work and training - Harold JarcheWhat is interesting is that the collective training system is much less formal. There are guidelines, but not several volumes of guidance. For the most part, the training specialists are only advisors on collective training. The combat operations folks run the show here.
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A Problem Shared Is a Problem Solved | Fast CompanyNot so long ago, companies created departments to create innovation. But the result was often that innovation was turned into a state secret. The only people who knew what was going on -- and therefore the only people who could really contribute -- were the Chosen Ones inside the innovation ...
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On Twitter and in the Workplace, It's Power to the Connectors - Rosabeth Moss KanterToday, people with power and influence derive their power from their centrality within self-organizing networks that might or might not correspond to any plan on the part of designated leaders. Organization structure in vanguard companies involves multi-directional responsibilities, with an ...
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Open Innovation - Connected Innovation - Stefan LindegaardHow does General Mills define open innovation? We actually prefer the term Connected Innovation. At its core, it’s all about connecting more effectively to smart people who can help us meet our business needs. The connection could be with colleagues, suppliers, other food companies or perhaps ...
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Dialogue - life and death of the organizationThere is a pervasive tendency in organizational studies to view acts of communication in terms of the individual agent. It is the individual who speaks, writes, gestures, and so on; it is the individual we credit for effective speaking, just as it is the individualís ineffective listening that ...
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Relational Being: Beyond Self and Community - Kenneth J. GergenThis book builds on two current developments in psychology scholarship and practice. The first centers on broad discontent with the individualist tradition in which the rational agent, or autonomous self, is considered the fundamental atom of social life. Critique of individualism spring not ...
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Changing conversations in organizations: a complexity approach to change - Patricia ShawDrawing on the theoretical foundations laid out in earlier volumes of this series, this book describes an approach to organizational change and development that is informed by a complexity perspective. It clarifies the experience of being in the midst of change. Unlike many books that presume ...
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The Conversing Organization - its culture, power and potentialConversing is the lifeblood of an organization. People who recognize this can help create a Conversing Organization (the term I will use throughout for the generic Conversing Organization, with apologies to people in nonprofit organizations). My thesis is that 'Conversing is working; it is ...
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Relationships: The Basic Building Blocks of Life - Margaret J. WheatleyThe scientific search for the basic building blocks of life has revealed a startling fact: there are none. The deeper that physicists peer into the nature of reality, the only thing they find is relationships. Even sub-atomic particles do not exist alone. One physicist described neutrons, ...
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