Resource 21

We had classes about scenario planning for an organization or a company, but do you know that scenario planning can also be applied to personal career development? Here is a simple guidance on how to do personal scenario planning:

Resource 20 Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

Drawing from some of the most pivotal points in his life, Steve Jobs, chief executive officer and co-founder of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, urged graduates to pursue their dreams and see the opportunities in life's setbacks -- including death itself -- at the university's 114th Commencement on June 12, 2005.

Resource 19 Social Media Has Evolved Into the Art All Become of Storytelling, And We Must Masters of It

To understand how this concept can be applied, it’s useful to look at the evolution of storytelling and the role in which it’s played throughout different societies, as well as the media employed to communicate the story. Storytelling is often thought to have originated in Mesopotamia, where shamans would tell stories orally as a means of teaching and entertaining communities.


This paper gives us some detailed information regarding
1.The history of storytelling? 
2.How this applies to social medias?
3.Our story must looks beautiful?
4.Why our story must have talkability?
5.Why our story must be living?


Web address: Social Media Has Evolved Into The Art Of Storytelling, And We Must All Become Masters Of It.

Resource 18 Leveraging Digital Storytelling and Social Media to Build Your Organization & Network

Leveraging Digital Storytelling and Social Media to Build Your Organization & Network




Digital storytelling and social media have taken the communications world by storm. This video presented by Charlotte Hill shows the importance of storytelling and social media to key organizational decision makers, in order to begin building a story database and social media presence for your organization and create a strategic communications timeline around an upcoming moment of opportunism.

Resource 17 Storytelling: Transforming 21st Century Organizations

Storytelling: Transforming 21st Century Organizations

Narrative and storytelling play an enormous role in our modern economy and in public and private sector organizations.

Michael Shadow gives a whole introduction of how narrative works in public agencies and how managers/leaders can create a compelling narrative. Participants will learn the qualities of a good narrative, the process for discovering their own story and how to script a story that unites ideas with emotions.

For more detailed information, please click here.

Resource 16

This issue of TEDTalks presents a simple but powerful model for how leaders inspire action, starting with a golden circle and the question "Why?" The lecturer Simon Sinek's examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers.

Resources 15

An interview with David Kester, Chief Executive, Design Council. To foster a culture of innovation, managers must look outward to identify consumers' problems and spark ideas for solving those problems. They must also ease employees' fear of change. 

Kester's approach to fostering a culture of innovation is one that makes complete sense.

Resource 14 OPEN INNOVATION

Recently, in the class, we talk about how to develop the innovation in our learning organization. When I  search the relevant information, i found a interesting term called "open innovation". It's not a very new concept in this area, but growing attention have been devoted to it nowadays. If you
are interested in this concept, you may read the website below. The article describes "what is open innovation?" and "what is the difference between closed innovation and open innovation?"

Website Address: http://www.openinnovation.eu/open-innovation/

Resource 13 e-Learning Project Management

Drive accelerated e-Learning execution! 

Resource 12: Is Yours a Learning Organization?

Is Yours a Learning Organization? - Harvard Business Review

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Leaders may think that getting their organizations to learn is only a matter of articulating a clear vision, giving employees the right incentives, and providing lots of training. This assumption is not merely flawed—it’s risky in the face of intensifying competition, advances in technology, and shifts in customer preferences.

Here is an interview about "the importance of learning in organization".

Resource 11 What is a learning organization?

A useful paper written by Moya K. Mason introduced deeply about the learning organization, which also based on Peter Senge's "The Fifth Discipline". He also talked about the steps needed to create a culture that supports a learning organization and a timeline to initiate the types of changes necessary to achieve the principles of a learning organization.

Share the full text link with you who are interested in this topic, please click here for more detailed information.

Resource 10 Another LO case study

I found it hard to understand thoroughly all the concepts of a learning organization by only one case study of HKU Education department in class, so I read some other research articles after class.
This is a good one that I want to recommend to you: The learning organization ten years on: a case study. The case study object is Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.

Resource 9 Apple as an organization that always changes

Apple as an organization that always changes

View more presentations from Ouriel Ohayon

Resource 8

Disney Institute was created to share the Disney business model with organizations around the world, offering professional development programs that provide an exclusive passport into the Disney business paradigm. 

To learn more about program topics and options that can transform companies and inspire leadership and staff, visit http://www.disneyinstitute.com/.

Resource 7

This video explains Diffusion of Innovations model in a really simple way. I suppose even a child can understand what is Diffusion of Innovations is through watching this video ^-^

Resource 6: Android Mobile Development Process

Now the smart mobile with Android system is very popular in our life. And more and more mobile software are designed to be used in this system. Like the professional development happened in the organization, the designing of mobile software in Android system also is a complex process which needs to be developed step by step. "Android development" is a complex process, the successful implementation of Android Mobile Application Development projects by and large depends on the "development approach" itself. 

By reading this website, you may have a basic understanding of Android Development.

Resource 5 PD at the university of San Francisco School

Professional development opportunities at the university of San Francisco School of Management for current students and alumni

Resource 4 Organization assessment model---IMO

The Integrated Organisation Model (IOM) is a model that can be applied to describe, to analyse and to diagnose organisations. The IOM is an integrated (or integral) model to emphasise the interrelationships of the different elements of an organisation: although the elements can to a certain extent be treated separately, they are all connected to each other and - ideally - in balance.

For more detailed information in PDF version, please click here.

Resource 3 Teacher Professional Development using SAS

School and district administrators are under increasing pressure to take a holistic view of their organizations. In order to make a difference in education, educators and administrators need to gain useful knowledge and draw insightful conclusions by letting

data drive decision practices.

The video talked by Dr. Julie Morrow, Principal for Mooresville Intermediate School, on helping staff with data use and systems through professional development.

At http://www.sas.com/dddm, you can learn how to make data-driven decisions and review resources on data management.

Resources 2: Teachers as Leaders Within Their School Communities

We know that education institution needs to change itself to catch up with the fast changing modern society demands, but what should an education institution do when it faces strong obstacles from its members who stick to old tradition and comfort?
This is the answer from a teacher in such an education institution:
Teachers as Leaders Within Their School Communities