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"During the course of our lives, learning becomes detached from creating experiences and getting feedback. And so it turns from fun to a dreadful exercise with often devastating results: the knowledge taught is forgotten pretty quickly, with the whole education effort becoming a waste of everyone's time. In the corporate world this can be costly, and if you don't know how to use the tools properly or effectively, work becomes more inefficient, expensive and possibly even dangerous.


Which leads me to the following questions:

How can we make training more fun, add rich experience and gain feedback?
How can we enable trainers to add these elements to their materials?
Why is training separate from work rather than embedded into it?"

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"Advice on how to cope in this “always connected” age is plentiful: How to prioritize work better, manage your time more effectively across different domains of your life, survive email overload and even remedy your smartphone addiction. The trouble is that there is only so much that you can do alone: You can decide to turn off, but that does not mean everyone else will too."

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"Today we manage workers by headcount, jobs, roles, processes, and infrastructure. By viewing all work as a service we can define the service needs, match the service talent, and confirm the value exchange. The process empowers the worker to get the work done the way they want to work."

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"Profitons de la fête du travail pour parler de sa division.

Jusqu’à très récemment j’étais persuadé que la division du travail datait de Frederick Winslow Taylor. Je me trompais. Officiellement, cette division du travail provient d’une étude de Adam Smith, l’auteur de Recherche sur la nature et les causes de la richesse des nations et inventeur du fameux concept de “la main invisible du marché”.

Ou tout au moins c’est ce que l’on croyait car la vérité est toute autre. Grâce soit rendue à Vincent Lextrait (Directeur du développement à Amadeus) qui rend à César ce qui lui appartient, ceci dans une remarquable présentation à l’Université du SI en 2011."

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A few days back I bumped into this very intriguing and rather helpful article put together by Jessica Stillman under the rather provocative title of “Why Working More Than 40 Hours a Week is Useless” where she points us out to a superb piece of writing done by Sara Robinson at Salon under the suggestive heading of “Bring back the 40-hour work week” where she questions something that I am sure most of us knew, deep inside, from all along, but that very few have dared to even bring up as a topic of conversation. Specially, at work. Basically, when was the last time you worked 40 hours a week? Or, more importantly, does working more than 40 hours per week make you more effective and productive at what you do?"

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"In The Social Psychology of Organizing, Karl Weick exposed the theory of enactment, stating that organizations were fundamentally an abstraction of the reality, essentially brought to life through management’s narrative. In that sense, changing the way we work requires much more than technology and the empowerment of knowledge workers. Taking a broader perspective, and looking at organizations, not only as a production and profit-making machines, but as center of a part of human activities mainly taking place in cities, sheds a different light on the role and nature of what we call social businesses."

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" I am starting to question the validity and merit of a good number of motives from companies to become successful social businesses, because in reality they aren’t. They are just grabbing the wrong end of the stick thinking and hoping it will work out eventually, when we all know it won’t, and get away with it."

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"Race Against the Machine deserves praise for jump-starting an important discussion about the effect of technology on our economy. As the authors point out, the impact of computers and information technology has been largely left out of most analysis regarding causes of our current unemployment woes. This book, therefore, is an attempt to “put technology back in the discussion.”"

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"L'entreprise 2.0, c'est le nouveau modèle de l'entreprise, dans lequel tout le monde joue un rôle et qui bouleverse le management et la culture d'entreprise. Une petite révolution vers un monde plus social où les logiques de statuts n'existent plus.
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"Jennifer J. Deal, qui a mené une vaste recherche sur 12 ans avec 13.000 salariés d’entreprises et d’organisations à buts non lucratifs, explique que ces clichés concernant les enfants du millénaire au travail sont infondés. Sur la base de cette recherche, elle démonte 5 mythes courants à propos de la génération Y :"

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"Michael Porter has done us all a service in identifying that the wealth of modern economies comes from the productivity, innovation and high wages found in their clustered industries — those industries that are found only in certain geographic areas and trade most of their output outside their home areas, both nationally and internationally. Wages in these clustered industries (like pharmaceuticals or business services) are dramatically higher than in dispersed industries (like primary medical care or consumer services)."

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The four topics addressed in the video are:

* People should be paid for their contributions to for-profit ventures

* It is exploitation to pay people very low amounts

* Businesses should support their countries and communities by employing locally

* Professionals should not do unpaid work"

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" Over the last year I've been speaking with many corporate business and HR leaders and have heard a common theme: we need our organizations to be more agile. We need to redesign the organization so we can learn faster, communicate better, and respond more rapidly to change. This quest for the agile organization has changed the nature of what we call a job. "

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"Nine years ago, when I launched The Energy Project during an economic boom, it was nearly impossible to find senior leaders open to the idea that demand was exceeding people's capacity, and that it was critical to the bottom line to teach employees new ways to manage their energy more skillfully."

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"Shifts in global, societal, technological, economic, and socio-political trends will shape the future of work. The culmination of these distinct trends across multiple facets of societal and technological advancement will lead to an increased use of game mechanics in the workplace of the future. Over the last several years, several Microsoft teams have deployed “productivity games” to improve software engineering processes through the application of game mechanics. Augmenting a business process with game mechanics has led to significant productivity improvements. These lessons support the notion that games can – and will – be an important component of the workplace of the future."

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"From legions of independent consultants to cities dotted with coworking facilities, the future of work is virtual, online and global.

As the year draws to a close, you may be assessing your career plans against the backdrop of holiday hoopla and the uncertain employment climate. To get a leg up, grab an eggnog and read on to learn about trends that could change how you’ll be making a living in the years to come:"

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"Technology does not determine social and organizational change, but it does create new opportunity spaces for social innovations like new employment forms. Partial employment for young unemployed people is becoming much easier than before, and truly global task-based work is becoming possible, perhaps for the first time in history."

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