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Coherent Implications

Clark Quinn

There are three layers: work teams composed of members from different communities of practice, that are connected outward to broader social networks. At the work team level, you want people to be able to communicate with one another effectively, and collaborate to find answers.

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Determinism, Best Practice, and the ‘Training Solution’

Performance Learning Productivity

If a chemical engineer is looking to design a new process or parameters for distillation in a chemical plant she may be able to identify the volumes and sequences that produce the highest amount of pure distillate. Best practice is the result of deterministic behaviour and exists only in relatively simple systems.

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New Work and New Work Skills

Clark Quinn

Because it was a competition (each team's algorithm would play at the end of the year), I wanted to make sure that my algorithm was really good. I happened to be going on a trip to Washington DC to some kind of meeting for Tau Beta Pi (the engineering honor society). Contrast this with a A Fourth Grader Wikipedia Update.

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Does Your Organization Need a Learning Culture?

The Performance Improvement Blog

In January 2016 issue of Chief Learning Officer magazine , Kate Iverson quotes Dearborn: Justifying and inciting change in an engineering organization like SAP requires hard metrics. Your work teams are not as efficient and effective as they need to be. Team projects are late and over-budget.

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Servant leadership and AI: Agility and empowerment for the CLO

CLO Magazine

Engineers have now created a device that can simulate human intelligence through the emergence of big data, cloud computing, artificial neural networks and machine learning. ‘We’ is more important than ‘I’ in such self-directed work teams, and technology is a common denominator.”

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Degreed LENS 2021: Insightful, Inspirational, and In-Person

Degreed

His marketing career spans 20 years running work, teams, and agencies in London, Amsterdam, San Francisco, and Atlanta. Neil Bedwell is a Founding Partner and President at LOCAL, a Change Marketing consultancy building culture, employee experience, and internal communication programs for some of the world’s best companies.

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Thinking, Instructional Design, PWLE, Manufacturing, & Google

Big Dog, Little Dog

I believe there's quite a bit of commonality among the kinds of tasks we deal with (at an abstract level) and we need to help each other figure out how we can effectively and efficiently work through these tasks as individuals, as work teams, as part of a larger ecosystem. Rhythm - Basic Principles of Design - About.com.

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