The Learning Collaborative

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September 11th, 2009

Ready for some feedback?

Posted by John Foster.

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In August, we held the first session of the Rypple Learning Collaborative at Mozilla’s new HQ in Mountain View.  In addition to Mozilla, we had participants from Method Home, Pixar, The Federal Reserve Bank, Kiva, Littler Mendelson, Electronic Arts, the Stanford d.School, Facebook, and IDEO.

We hope this collaborative learning effort generates some new insights and ideas that help people do a better job asking for and giving feedback.  So, we spent much of our first time together  sharing our direct experiences with people giving and receiving feedback and generating a list of observations about what seems to work and what doesn’t.

We framed our discussions with the idea that feedback involves not only the person asking/receiving and the person giving/providing, but …

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June 10th, 2009

Introducing the Rypple Learning Collaborative

Posted by John Foster.

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John is head of talent and organization for IDEO, where he leads internal efforts to help the firm stay at the leading edge of design and innovation consulting.  John also works on IDEO client projects to assist and guide organization design components.

I’ve just starting working on a new project with the folks at Rypple. You may have heard about them recently as they are getting some great coverage from traditional media like The Economist and Business Week, and blogs like ReadWriteWeb. We’ve …