Get Smarter Than Smart

Marcia Conner — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:39:02 -0400

A CEO just asked me how to get his people under control. He believes he's doing everything right so it must be his people who are all wrong. He reminds me of the teacher who prepares all summer and then come fall the wrong students arrive.

Invitation to a Party

Marcia Conner — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:43:17 -0400

Many of my colleagues recently attended the Web2.0Expo in San Francisco. From over 2K miles away I followed those twittering the fine details, longing for a way to easily get to the West Coast. This expo captivated my attention because the world live web, by its very nature, invites each of us to learn.

Looking for my older blogs and article?

Marcia Conner — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:19:17 -0400

Are you looking for my older Learning Resources columns or Learning at All Levels expert blog posts? While the Fast Company site is being upgraded, much of my content is on a server that's temporarily unaccessable.

Until the content is all moved to the primary site, you can read my older expert blogs on another server and my articles on my personal website blog.

I appreciate your patience and persistence during this change.

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Socially Awkward Networks

Marcia Conner — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:50:00 -0400

A woman, who as a girl in gradeschool taunted me enthusiastically, contacted me through a social network site asking if I planned to attend an upcoming reunion.

At first I didn't think much about it. I assumed she was on some committee for the gathering of once inelegant adolescents and she was contacting me as part of her new do-good campaign.

I replied in a perfunctory noncommittal way, and tucked her married name into my mental rolodex of people to avoid calls from if they appear on callerID.

The Latest in Learning Fast: edu-Twittering

Marcia Conner — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:26:07 -0400

A decade ago the hot app on everyone's desktop was PointCast, a personalized headline service of content emblazoned across your screensaver through a pre-RSS feed. No typing required, no link to click through. While on the phone or talking with a colleague at your desk you could glean the day's hot news or gather learning-bites you subscribed to receive. Downtime be damned.

Fast Talk Response -

Marcia Conner — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:07:59 -0500

seemless.

Comment on Node ant

Marcia Conner — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:20:16 -0500

I suspect I've taken every personality assessment there is to take, but I find myself recommending MBTI most often. I'll never forget attending a company offsite years ago where two of us decided to tour the area prior to the start of meetings one day. The night before, I asked one more person to join us. My original counterpart did the same. The trouble is that we didn't realize the two people we had asked didn't like each other. *Really* didn't like each other. Before sunrise they were already arguing about something small. Then someone brought up their Myers-Briggs type. Why?

Time for You to Go

Marcia Conner — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:22:34 -0500

When my husband was leaving a long-time job, the exit interviewer asked if a different role would make him stay. He had envisioned one, but he didn't mention it.