Jay Cross

The metronome of human progress is swinging exponentially faster. We are leaving the industrial era behind so quickly that even thrill-seekers like me are finding it nauseating.

Chief Learning Officer magazine, Effectiveness, April 2009

by Jay Cross

The Internet is so pervasive that Internet values are blowing back into real life.

For example, I have no qualms…

I’m spending Wednesday at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. I don’t think of it as “attending a conference.” It’s more like being poured into a dense soup of experts, mavens, connectors,…

On April 21, Corporate Learning Trends will focus on the Future of Organizational Learning and Development. We plan to explore the issues you want to talk about. Among the suggestions to-date:

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Just fooling. I wish we had more instructors. In these explosive times, I’d like to see more of all forms of learning. If we don’t pump more resources into learning, we’re going to be flying blind.

Sometimes I find myself sinking below the flow of information zipping by faster and faster. Instead of hopping all over the place to catch up, I turn to this newspaper view of Informal Learning…

Wonderful short article in Harvard Business Publishing by Freek Vermuelen describes how top-down informationbases actually get in the way of doing business.

The advice to derive from this…