Besides working on my two performance classes, I’ll also be attending a couple of Boston-based events. Tues Nov 3 I’ll be at the Mass chapter of ISPI to hear Cammy Bean talk about eLearning authoring tools. Several other #lrnchat folks will be there too. Tues Nov 17 I’m planning to go to the Greater Boston [...]
Archives for October, 2009
McKinsey Report: Using technology to improve workforce collaboration
As you know if you are following me on twitter, this semester I am taking two performance classes. This means I’m paying more attention to things that measure performance and performance gaps. Since I’m always hyper-focused on social media, I’m also looking at how emerging tools can be used to close performance gaps. This report [...]
category: performance
Language that homogenizes creates losers
In my last post, I talked about the Gervais Principle and the Company Hierarchy diagram: Notice the huge bottom layer of “losers”. Losers isn’t necessarily this sort of loser: But as Venkatesh Rao (inventor of the Gervais principle) explains, loser is more in the economic sense. You have this huge mass of people who give [...]
category: women in tech
If the Gervais principle isn’t working, what is the ideal management structure
A few days ago I wrote about the history of management, and specifically the Gervais Principle.The Gervais Principle states: Sociopaths, in their own best interests, knowingly promote over-performing losers into middle-management, groom under-performing losers into sociopaths, and leave the average bare-minimum-effort losers to fend for themselves. This principle was based on this image of Company [...]
category: performance
New Tag Cloud builder – Tagul
Someone tweeted a link to Tagul. It makes very nice tag clouds. You can save clouds, and have the option of updating the clouds automatically. If you click on a word in the tagul, it opens a google search with that term. Pretty cool. Will need to play with this more after midterms, but here [...]
category: instructional technology
