Links
Learning & personal development
www.icvet.tafensw.edu.au/index.htm
ICVET is a proramme, aimed at sharing knowledge and ideas amongst professionals within vocational education. Both in the work practice and in school: linking work and learning. Lots of news and many tools.
www.infed.org/encyclopaedia.htm
The encyclopedia of informal education contains descriptions of countless learning concepts, models, important thinkers and scholars in the field of learning.
Knowledge productivity
A ‘spider-in-the-website’ on social capital. With a strong focus on researchers, including many papers, research results and conference descriptions.
TED is a forum for ‘ideas worth spreading’. The website contains many small films on leadership, sustainability, creativity and so on.
Scharmer, Senge and a number of their colleauges have interviewed important contemporary thinkers and visionaries to discover their ideas on leadership. Their stories are on the site.
Site with background information on many different management models.
Peter Drucker has greatly influenced our thinking on leadership. He was the founder of the term knowledge productivity. This website contains much of and about his work.
Innovation and change
www.appreciativeinquiry.case.edu
David Cooperrider and his colleagues at the Case Western Reserve University have developed the Appreciative Inquiry approach. The site presents much background and practical tips for working with AI.
The presencing insititute, was established by Otto Scharmer and is focused on learning from the future, by using the Ucurve.
De Society for Organizational Learning is a worldwide network of professionals in the field of organizational learning. Inspired by the thinking of Peter Senge.
Jeremy Rifkin founded a not-for-profit organisation, FOET, aimed at creating a strong dialogue on changes in the world, and what they mean for the ways in which we think. The site contains many fims, articles and columns. Aimed at making us think.
HRD function
Site of the American Association for HRD professionals.
Sustainability and societal development
www.businessforworldbenefit.edu
David Cooperrider launched an initiative for a World Inquiry: a global appreciative Inquiry for innovations with which companies give an important boost for working on societal issues and questions.
Global network of young professionals, focused on finding their role in change and innovation. Both of organisations and society.
A network of about 120 leaders and companies, aimed at developing a new, sustainable life- and business style.
