Free-range Learners in the Age of the

Ubiquitous Chicken House

The Shrinking uPod

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Nodes Top-down Distributed

How Networks Evolveas communication costs drop

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Human Governance

Bands Kingdoms Democracies

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Business

Single Proprietors Franchises Business Webs

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Learning

One-on-one Classroom Informal

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Learning RedefinedLearning is adaptation to change. In uncertain times, the best learners survive.

MassiveChange

Adapt

Die

or

or

Evolve

Learn

Value CreationValue Creation

CustomersCustomers

My teamMy team

Other teamsOther teams

Global marketsGlobal markets

CompetitionCompetition

Talent poolTalent pool

StakeholdersStakeholders

MeMe

Our enterpriseOur enterpriseinternetinternet

Value chain

book

paradoxInformal Learninghttp://informl.com

Learning is both creating and consuming knowledge..

mixer

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LearnerLearner

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LearnerLearner

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LearnerLearner

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LearnerLearner

CommunitiesCommunitiesthat matterthat matter

April 2007

LearnerLearner

CommunitiesCommunitiesthat matterthat matter

Linkages

SlowSlow

FastFast

ContentContent

Human consciousnessHuman consciousness

Internet architectureInternet architecture

CollaborationCollaboration

News, dataNews, data

Performance supportPerformance support

Need for friends & alliesNeed for friends & allies

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LearnerLearner

CommunitiesCommunitiesthat matterthat matter

Linkages

Bottom-up knowledge

Linkages

Web 2.0 tools, ‘net inside

Findability & speed of access

Collaboration, it’s us

Learnscape

Impatience with status quo

Acceptance of complexity

Cluetrain candorSmall pieces, loosely joined

Self-serviceWeb literateHealthy, alertMeta-learnerCommunication skills

Learner

Conversation

Holistic

Mobility

Werner von Heisenberg

Respect & trust learner

Learning culture

Trust the individual

Bottom-up knowledge

Common good

Networks & relationships

Web 2.0 tools, ‘net inside

Findability & speed of access

Collaboration, it’s us

Mind-set

Impatience with status quo

Acceptance of complexity

Cluetrain candor

Small pieces, loosely joined

Self-service

LearnerConversation

Inside out

Visuals & prototypes

Mobility

Werner von Heisenberg

ComplexityComplexity

Certainty is an illusion.

Everything is connected.

The future is unpredictable.

Nurture, control

Fit is the measure of success.

Life is full of surprises. (“It” happens.)

The world of our own making has become so complicated that we must turn to the world of the born to understand how to manage it.

The central act of the coming era is to connect everything to everything.

An event is not triggered by a chain of being, but by a field of causes spreading horizontally, like creeping tide.

A company cannot be a learning company without also being a teaching company.

What humans can't engineer, evolution can.

Life is a verb not a noun.

Learning

Learningis theWork

Leverage = help workers learn to learn

Learning is participatoryWork

Focus shifts from delivering programs to nurturing learning ecologies

Learning embedded in work: performance support, social networking, ambient findability, great connections

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