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What is the Important Work?

Clark Quinn

In essence, to do the important work faster. Call it knowledge work, call it concept work, the point is that execution will only be the cost of entry, innovation will be the necessary differentiator. The fact is, our brains are really good at pattern matching, and bad at rote work.

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The Tale of Two Cultures

Jay Cross

Intuitive knowledge is what Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman describes in Thinking Fast and Slow as System 1. It’s the province of the emotional brain. Intuitive knowledge works with patterns; it knows no words. Rational knowledge. Rational knowledge is the opposite of Intuitive knowledge.

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The Tale of Two Cultures

Jay Cross

Intuitive knowledge is what Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman describes in Thinking Fast and Slow as System 1. It’s the province of the emotional brain. Intuitive knowledge works with patterns; it knows no words. Rational knowledge. Rational knowledge is the opposite of Intuitive knowledge.

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Importance of Questions in the Concept Age

ID Reflections

This approach worked well enough in the Industrial Age and the process-driven work culture ( where there was a clear relationship between cause and effect ) set in place by Frederick W Taylor with his Efficiency Movement and, subsequently, in the Information Age dominated by lawyers, programmers, MBAs, MTechs, and CAs.

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Learning’s Role in Innovation

CLO Magazine

One realization is that most of the benefits to business are coming increasingly from so-called knowledge work, work that processes information in productive ways. Our cognitive strengths are pattern-matching and meaning-making, while computers instead excel at performing rote tasks and complex calculations.

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Thriving in the Net-Work Era

Jay Cross

Time for some quick-and-dirty research to get the brain in gear. SENSE: Listen; Enable conversations; Look for patterns; Learn together. RESPOND: Support the work; Connect people; Share experiences; Develop tools. So what models will work for our complex environments? Summit in Alexandria, Virginia. Inverting the Pyramid.

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The 70:20:10 Model – Today, Tomorrow & Beyond

Learnnovators

Jobs are changing where there is a clear move from role-based work to task-based work, less transactional work and more work that requires decision-making and dealing with ambiguity. Each of these is driving changes in the way we understand that learning needs to happen. Could you elaborate on this for our readers?