Entries by Ross Dawson

Reinvention and the virtuous circle of learning by doing: the case of The Virtual Excellence Show

For the last couple of months I have been selectively sharing conversations, tutorials, and highlight videos from The Virtual Excellence Show on this blog, but I haven’t written anything about the show itself. This is the story of the show and the most important things I’ve learned so far. The last time I spoke in-person […]

The self-perpetuating social feedback loops in AI-based predictive policing could stop social evolution

A group of well over 1000 academics and researchers calling themselves Coalition for Critical Technology has just published a public letter to academic publisher Springer urging them not to publish a forthcoming article. The article claims to be able to predict if someone is a criminal based on a picture of their face, with “80 […]

Scalable learning founded on small group collaboration and extended networks will drive organizational success

In my recent conversation with John Hagel on The Virtual Excellence Show, one of the topics John shared insights on was scalable learning, which he has substantially focused on in recent years. For an excellent framing of the subject see his article in Harvard Business Review Great Businesses Scale Their Learning, Not Just Their Operations. […]