Trust Is Earned
More expressions of anxiety here ……..till they delete the space.
Read More...Uncontrolled Versions
After years of hunting around for it I finally located the very form which has served as a metaphor in many a public presentation around the traps over the years.
The story goes that whilst working with CLI a number of years ago my then boss at the time had provided me with absolutely very little to persuade me that sitting motionless behind a a molded plastic screen would further advance my career any more than it did sitting motionless on the other side of Australia.
After all, I’d up-rooted my family and moved to NSW to extend my career not kill it and here I found myself sitting in the dead-centre ( no pun intended ) at the Centre for Learning Innovation, TAFE NSW.
Lo and behold Leigh Blackall turns up and in front of 40 people in the boardroom proceeded to convince at least 50% of those present to go forth and be anything beyond an unthinking auto-moton.
To this day I’ll never forget the feeling that it gave me to receive news that if I wished to push something as simple as using del.icio.us to network bookmarks for research purposes that I’d have to fill in a request for innovation form and submit that for approval.
Heaven forbid…….I’m sure my inability to digest such inane bureaucracy got the better of me and to the horror of some I jumped ship after 5 long winded months where I got to update TALO more than my own blog site.
Ah well….I learned that innovation is not a granted request…rather a ground swell of initiative that follows it’s own sweet path and more often than not does not fit neatly into boxes. Perhaps next week I’ll find some more un-thinking examples for us to reflect on and to move away from…..
Read More...It’s The Internet Stupid !
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A very interesting podcast recorded by Stephan Ridgway and distributed via the MyLearning blog at TAFE NSW Sydney Institute.
Grab a listen….well worth the effort.
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