The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Reinventing education and the StudentsFirst.org movement The US education is in crisis. The evidence is well-known and summarized in my post earlier this week. A root cause of the crisis is the application of the factory model of management to education, where everything is arranged for the scalability and efficiency of “the system”, to which …
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Recognition: How the revolution IS being tweeted Why Malcolm Gladwell got it wrong Read entire posting. See Also: Gaming as a Recognition & Reward System Grandmothers Role in Child-Driven Education
Social Media, a Brilliant Teacher, the Power of Embracing the Future EXTRACT: Mashable has a insightful post about how some teachers are incorporating social media into their classrooms and are seeing dramatic increases in student interest and achievement as a result. …. reading things like this excites me because shows me that we are winning …
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The Facebook Generation vs. the Fortune 500 Gary Hamel ….in the future, any company that lacks a vital core of Gen F employees will soon find itself stuck in the mud. With that in mind, I compiled a list of 12 work-relevant characteristics of online life. These are the post-bureaucratic realities that tomorrow’s employees will …
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How not to get the best from your people: doing things to people vs doing things with people I’m normally an optimistic kind of guy. Each month when I receive Harvard Business Review, I open it up thinking that maybe, just maybe, there’s been a change of heart. Maybe they have moved on from 1965. …
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Startling clarity, common sense, and immediate relevance September 21, 2010 Steve Denning I received a copy of this book as a galley from the publisher, and I strongly recommend it in any form. I first met Steve Denning when he was recently retired from being program director of knowledge management at the World Bank, and …
Radical management: what to do when your customer is the government One constraint on implementing radical management is that the customer is on a different path altogether. A frequent example is where your customer is a government bureaucracy. You are aspiring to delight your client, and your client is saying, “Don’t bother with me such …
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