Another example of the push and pull between individuals and the larger organization - which can also be seen as a question of decentralization vs. centralization - is discussed in Organization in the Way: How decentralization hobbles the user experience by Peter Merholz and linked to by Karl on his Information Management Weblog.
Putting, for example, [...]
From Learning and Training Innovations magazine is the article Making Time to Learn. The author presents several approaches to overcome the problem “lack of time is the major impediment to learning,” including:
Make learning an official, voiced company or unit goal (iow, Give your employees permission to learn)
Link training explicitly to individual goals
Tie training to [...]
The other day my 13-year old (Zeke) decided he was going to sit down and “beat” the game SuperMario 64 on the Nintendo 64. We’ve had the game since it first came out with the N64 (I think in ‘96) and he played the game quite a bit over the years, but he had [...]
In recent post, Jack posted a link to a survey being conducted by Marvin Rosenburg on, you guessed it, information overload. Specifically, the survey seeks to gather information on which countermeasures (see below) are most effective:
Personal Factors
Information Characteristics
Task and Process Parameters
Organizational Design
Information Technology
While this particular survey, and in fact most discussions [...]
My elder son has an iBook that he uses for some school work. One of the key things he uses it for is a daily journal, where the teacher asks a question and he has to write a response. The teacher will then write a response back. Since he is autistic and [...]
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