Jay Cross helps people work and live smarter. Jay is the Johnny Appleseed of informal learning. He wrote the book on it. He was the first person to use the term eLearning on the web. He has challenged conventional wisdom about how adults learn since designing the first business degree program offered by the University of Phoenix.
Stoos is a village located in the municipality of Morschach. It lies at 1,300 metres in the Swiss canton of Schwyz and has about 100 inhabitants. It is used as a small ski resort with a cable car leading to the Fronalpstock. The village itself is car-free and is accessible via a funicular. (Wikipedia)
Help the Stoos Gathering Transform Management (Forbes)
More Ideas for Jumpstarting the Transformation of Management (Forbes)
The invitation to Stoos
Stoos Network on Twitter
A great summary of the Stoos Gathering from Steve Denning
Photos from the Stoos Gathering
Jay’s initial post on Stoos
Jay’s Stoos Gathering video on YouTube
From Steve Denning, examples of companies that exemplify things we discussed at Stoos:
In terms of companies that exemplify for instance some aspects of the
principles of radical management, here are some possibilities among
some large well-known companies:
Apple
http://www.forbes.com/sites/
Amazon
http://www.forbes.com/sites/
Salesforce
http://blogs.forbes.com/
http://blogs.forbes.com/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/
Intuit
http://www.forbes.com/sites/
IBM
http://blogs.forbes.com/
http://blogs.forbes.com/
Juniper
http://blogs.forbes.com/
Banks: USAA
http://www.forbes.com/sites/
HCLT
http://www.forbes.com/sites/
Moonshots for Management by Gary Hamel
Extracts from Semco’s “Survival Manual”
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Related concepts…
The Origins of Good Ideas by Steve Johnson
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703989304575503730101860838.html
Incremental mash-ups of existing parts drive transformation
The Technium by Kevin Kelly
http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2009/08/extropy.php
Kevin describes what drives evolution