Last Month I had the opportunity to participate in this wonderful symposium organized by University of Utrecht and IBM. Here is the conference agenda . Great line up of speakers. It was a mixed reality event. There were participants physically co-located in Amsterdam and The Eduverse Foundation hosted a simultaneous event in SL. To do this show I was in my office in Durham on Skype with another machine open to the SL venue. It was a lot of fun but definitely demanded every ounce of attention I could muster to manage the various media streams. A Digital Native I am not ; ) You can check ...

I was in the Houston Airport today and saw that the May edition of HBR has finally hit the stands. Byron Reeves, Tom Malone and I have an article in the issue that talks about two research projects we conducted looking at the application of Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) and their application to Leadership. I have talked a lot about his research in previous blog posts that you can read here . This is a big day for those of us who study learning, leadership and virtual world technologies ; ) A very well respected business journal talking ...

... enterprise. Consequently, the primary challenge for learning leadership over the next few years will be to ...

A short (less than 3 min) podcast on Masow and Leadership .

When I sat down on the train tp read Leadership in a Distributed World - Lessons from Online Gaming, a paper from IBM ... provides a window into the future of organisations and the leadership capabilities necessary to guide enterprises to ... leaders will stay at home to enter IBM's virtual leadership world from their PCs, constructing new empires for Big Blue ... online game environments facilitate leadership and speed up the process of developing leaders," and 49% of respondents to their survey claimed that "game-playing has improved their real-world leadership capabilities," the authors were ...

The New Psychology of Leadership - Scientific American In the past, leadership scholars considered charisma, intelligence and other personality traits to be the key to effective leadership. In an alternative view, effective ...

Your Learning Theory Explored - Elliott Masie Stanton Wortham, a leading researcher from the Wharton/University of Penn program on Learning Leadership explores learning theories and our occasional contradictions. Five Common Mistakes in Innovation - Business Week If you work for Steve Jobs, innovation seems like second nature. If you don't, the only useful lesson seems to be to quit your job and go work for Apple. Rather, search inside yourself for moments of ... leadership today requires more than technical skills, expertise and solid work ethics. Collaboration (versus the ...

The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch has become one of my favorite shows. Why? Its all about helping people follow their dreams by asking the ones that have done it. So what does this have to do with e-Learning? Well, I know many of you are responsible for management & leadership training. Thursday is leadership day. What is your Leadership IQ? You should watch to get better ideas about how to improve your training solutions. My guess is that most people that are in a leadership role didn't actually learn how to be leaders by taking training. Sure they learn the basics ...

Psychology of Leadership - Scientific American Strong leadership arises out of a symbiotic relationship between leaders ...

An interesting conversation is happening in the comments of Karyn's Calvinball post. I'm remembering that I have some pretty set biases regarding what I am looking for in an organization and in leadership. Many of these biases stem from my control-freak personality and my "stagehand past ... time does the house open? (Time resources) - Who answers questions? Who is the final decision-maker? (Leadership ... part of leadership.....

As part of rolling out Virtual Leader, it has been interesting for me to note how most organization who do formal leadership training actually do formal leadership training. I think most terms are self-evident, but external coaching can also include board involvement. Tools include focused performance support. The high-potential focus is not exclusive of other manager and supervisor leadership training.

Perhaps the most important " Big Skill " is leadership. It certainly is the Big Skill to which I have put the most ... ). Leadership is the ability to get people to do the right work. Leadership connects actions to results, and sometimes even changes the metrics of success. The challenge of over-simplifying leadership can be summarized in this typical example. Many organizations in their leadership mission say they value innovation . But do they mean/measure/reward ... /identify leadership? And how does it define it? By the way, this past post has a chart that shows how I believe ...

The Pepsi challenge - Fortune No sooner had PepsiCo president Indra Nooyi gotten word 18 months ago that she was to become the next CEO than she hopped on a plane to Cape Cod, where Mike White, her main challenger for the job, was vacationing. As Nooyi's plane landed on Cape Cod, there was White waiting for her at the airport with a card he'd written to congratulate her. They took a long walk on the beach. Back at his beach house, he played the piano and she sang. Before she left, they went for ice cream. "Tell me whatever I need to do to keep you, and I will do it," she told her longtime ...

During Objective Peach , Lt. Col. Ernest "Rock" Marcone, a battalion commander with the 69th Armor of the Third Infantry Division, was starved for information about Iraqi troop movements and as he said in the Technology Review article, "I would argue that I was the intelligence-gathering device for my higher headquarters." ...

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U.S. tech leadership to go way of 2004 Dream Team? Workflow Learning Gets Real Dr Dean Spitzer explains to Mike Levy the inevitable changes about to take place in training and learning Data Kids playing computer games fail in ...

When Leadership Fuels Discontent Blink and The Wisdom of Crowds Engaging Employees to Impact Performance In Praise of Knowledge Workers Why this "Internet thing" is just starting Can This Black Box See Into the Future?

I believe this has a lesson for the learning programs we design. Podcast - On Maslow and leadership Also, a related reading - Leadership & Human Behavior .

There is too much focus today on IT governanceâ€"the reporting, quantifying and measuring of the IT organization's outputâ€"and not enough on IT leadership." Stop measuring performance and get something done. At times it seems we are much more interested in measurement, rather than improving the organization. Thus, Be a King, Not a Joker .

Leadership: Management by Design New theory chalenges current view of how brain stores long-term memory Photo Composite A model performance from BPM Performance bonuses dash workers' hopes for raises Inovation and Business: Monster Fueled by Caffeine Wikipedia Faces Growing ...

ISTE | NETS for Teachers 2008 NETS-T 2008 standards–technology standards for teachers in 5 categories. tags: education , technology , digitalliteracy , 21stcenturyskills 1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity 2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments 3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning 4. Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility 5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership ...

... to do some leadership development training for a geographically-dispersed group of its representatives. Using free and ... follows: Coaching / Mentorship Model A blog (via Blogger , Word Press , etc.) is set up for a leadership coach, who posts best practice leadership principles, stories and anecdotes, audio recordings, RRS feeds from top leadership sites ... (e.g. SeedWiki ) where all participants can collaboratively build a leadership model for the organization, under the ... competencies compare to the organization's leadership model; Personal leadership development plans are submitted to ...

Anna Farmer, over at The Engaging Brand lists 8 Free Ways to Help People Learn at Work . Notice how NONE of the solutions include a trainer, an instructional designer, or any educational development models. No mention of eLearning, courseware, or anything that smacks of a classroom. Anna's emphasis is on business, leadership, and management. This is where many of our clients (corporate management) see the future of "training" - easy access to information, mentors, and collaborative tools. NOT courses.

... talk about how not to do it again.' Thoughts on Leadership Development - Gautam Ghosh Business Leadership can be developed along three axes: Business, Functional, and Technical. The Neuroscience of Leadership and Brain ...

The True Meaning Of Leadership - The Day Rosa Parks' single act of courage and commitment shows us that the best form of leadership can come from within. Tags Rosa Parks Leadership segregation The Social Networking ...

... taking a class on leadership skills. Imagine if they could pull up Ubiquity and type lms leadership to bring up a list of classes offered at your organization related to leadership. Or imagine if they had to look up information that ...

Visual Literacy Bringing Fresh Visions to Tired Cliches. Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique? There are important differences. Are differences attributable to different cultures or to different stages of corporate development? An interview with John Hagel (audio) Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with John Hagel, who with co-author John Seely Brown, has written "The Only Sustainable Edge," a new perspective for business. Developing An Authentic Planning Process Today's business environment is dynamic, unpredictable and filled with instances of discontinuous ...

Data can help personalization, but data is a means, not an end. I stumbled into a nice reminder of that. Tim Sanders, Leadership Coach at Yahoo delivered an interesting keynote at DigitalNow last year. Follow the link below to learn how the CEO of Pizza Hut and a single customer shared a great experience when he called her. Tim Sanders - Betty the Pizza Lady (Windows Media, 7 very worthwhile minutes) How can we data mine the impersonal performance results to create this sort of memorable, high-impact experience for learners?

I was doing some benchmarking the other day between a few different organizations. One question that was asked was, what are the "no-brainer" groups of employees to train? (And there may be a second question, what are the no-brainer topics to train, like leadership, ethics, sexual harassment, etc). To me, the obvious groups are: new employees ; high potential people ; call center employees ; sales people; and anyone who has to have certification or compliance ; anyone who has to demonstrate a mastery level (like a pilot, although this differs from organization ...

I was doing some benchmarking the other day between a few different organizations. One question that was asked was, what are the "no-brainer" groups of employees to train? (And there may be a second question, what are the no-brainer topics to train, like leadership, ethics, sexual harassment, etc). To me, the obvious groups are: new employees ; high potential people ; call center employees ; sales people; and anyone who has to have certification or compliance ; anyone who has to demonstrate a mastery level (like a pilot, although this differs from organization ...