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  1. Marga Biller

    8th Annual LILA Summit

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    This year's LILA Summit will be the culmination of the exploration of the theme of Unlearning to Learn. The LILA Community has spent the year thinking about how mindsets, habits and systems affect our ability to unlearn. For this last formal gathering on the theme, we will be joined by Dr. Bill Starbuck and Dr. Tim Wilson who will provoke our thinking by sharing their research on how individual and organizations can unlearn. The Summit is open to all past members and faculty of LILA and by special invitation. To register, please contact amanda_nourse@harvard.edu.
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    February 2014 Member Feedback

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    Josh Alwitt The session was enjoyable and I had some good takeaways from the discussion that I think could help me in my work here.  The LILA format continues to have tremendous potential for sparking breakthrough thinking in the adult learning field.  It’s clear how much effort the LILA team puts into these sessions and the vetting of speakers and participants must be difficult work.  It was my 14th gathering and I would say it ranked towards the lower end when I look back.  The energy seemed a little flat and here are some thoughts on why that might be:...
  3. Marga Biller

    February 2014 Team Feedback

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    Feedback Day 1 What went well Good attendance Topic is engaging Translation from graphic workshop to doing it here was good Things kept moving well, no lags Content from speakers is really interesting and good juxtaposition Things aren’t buttoned up right now which is good People were talking about it and trying to make sense of the concepts Members were making insightful, thoughtful comments Food was great Used video from past session in the opening section – got good feedback from members Things to consider for tomorrow and next time If the person who nominates the topic doesn’t go to...
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    Last Year’s Focus

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    The starting point for our exploration of flexpertise was recognition of the incredible power of expertise. Our world runs on expertise – technical, political, economic, management, etc. Any one of us can live a good life knowing only a little about microcircuits or international finance or water shortages because other people know a lot, and we benefit from their knowledge. Departments in organizations can get away with knowing only a bit about X or Y because some other department or an outsourcer does it expertly. It’s a wonderful and amazing system. However, as individuals and organizations, we often don’t make...
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    March Chair Call – Unlearning at the Systems Level: What We can Learn From the Shared Spaces Concept

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    “Imagine a city with no sidewalks. Not because the cars have disappeared, or because the pedestrians have been banished to bridges and tunnels, but because all kinds of traffic are sharing the public spaces. The conventional division of the space of our streets no longer valid. – We understand human behavior much better now than we used to, says Ben Hamilton-Baillie. He is an architect at a a small company providing specialist knowledge and experience of innovative solutions for reconciling traffic movement with quality public spaces in cities, towns and villages.” (From an interview with Ben Hamilton-Bailiie by Ola Bettum and...
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    Divide and Conquer: Case Study about LILA member Don McLauglin’s work at Cisco

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    It was the Great Recession, and Cisco Systems’ long run of strong business results was in trouble. Sales were shrinking at the data communications pioneer, and executives were keen to cut costs. Out of the crisis emerged a new way of doing the business of HR at Cisco. About two years ago, the company effectively split human resources into tactical and strategic wings. The move put the company at the forefront of HR design and has yielded other significant benefits……It hasn’t been easy. The overhaul has required a new mindset among both HR professionals and Cisco’s workforce of 75,000 people...
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    Challenges of Unlearning

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    David Perkins shared some of his thinking about some of the challenges of unlearning. There are many ways to dig into the topic so he invited us to consider what is the big picture about this year’s theme in three ways: Defining Unlearning: Broadly speaking we can think of it as interfering with prior learning. Lots of learning builds on prior knowledge and beliefs. But there are other situations in which prior habits, mindsets, or systems are obstacles. A second point is that unlearning may not be the best term because you don’t really erase something, you typically bracket or...

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