Let’s get rid of the social enterprise
Editor’s note: Thanks to @smartco for sharing this provocative piece on business transformation – with the focus very much on transformation.
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To get more sleep, get more sunlight
Editor’s note: More light during the day leads to better sleep at night, according to research. It also leads to happier, more healthy employees.
Corporate training can’t ignore mobile
Editor’s note: Short post that features a simple approach to designing learning for mobile.
Disruptive technologies: Advances that will transform life, business, and the global economy
Editor’s note: Mentioned at yesterday’s Learning and Skills Group summer conference, here is the link to the list of McKinsey’s disruptive technologies.
New Ericsson report on needs of today’s smartphone and mobile internet users
Editor’s note: The need of smartphone users based on whether they are: performance seekers, cost cutters, curious novices, control seekers, VIPs or Devicers.
New study rebuts increase in willingness to cooperate from intuitive thinking
Editor’s note: There was talk of intuition becoming increasingly important in humans versus automated task that can be carried out by computers at the Learning and Skills Group summer conference.This research looks at whether we are intuitively willing to cooperate.
Social media activity linked to narcissism
Editor’s note: Not surprising? The amount of social media activity a person takes part in is linked to their level of narcissism, new research has suggested.
Samsung’s (very) early attempts at thought-controlled mobile devices
Editor’s note: OK, so it is early days but we are fascinated by wearable tech and how we might use our brains to control devices . . .
Work isn’t working: Microsoft ‘envisioner’ Dave Coplin on why the office must change
Editor’s note: Interesting piece on the future workplace and how we are failing to use technology to its full potential.
Does exercising with apps actually get you fitter?
Editor’s note: A good question – is the quantified self movement actually helping people to change their lives for the better?
The rise of EdTech
Editor’s note: A mini tour of how technology is changing the way teachers and students operate – includes some of the new tech tools being developed in this sector.
Roll out a barrel…
Editor’s note: Andrew Jacobs shares more of his thinking on how the CIPD could be more relevant to L&D professionals.
Encounter cooperation
Editor’s note: John Terrell, Regenstein Curator of Pacific Anthropology at Chicago’s Field Museum, on learning about cooperation from biology and anthropology.
When giving reasons leads to worse decisions
Editor’s note: Research shows that in some situations introspection can interfere with using our feelings as a reliable guide to what we should do
Put social learning tools on your map
Editor’s note: Interesting perspective on the LMS and social tools using the Google Maps acquisition of Waze as an example.