Hockey, Design Thinking & Education
October 14, 2013
What does professional hockey have to do with public education? Well, surprisingly little. However, the greatest hockey player to ever play the game, Wayne Gretzky,...
READ MOREVisting Touchstone Education’s Merit Prep Charter School in Newark, NJ
October 04, 2013
This week we had the privilege of visiting Merit Preparatory Charter School in Newark, New Jersey. Highly personalized education through blended live and technology-based learning...
READ MOREThe Greatest
September 12, 2013
“I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a...
READ MOREWhat Education Can Learn From Kung Fu
August 22, 2013
What Education Can Learn From Kung Fu
READ MORESlow Ideas
August 13, 2013
Why do some innovations spread so rapidly? Their viral adoptions and super-scaling are the kinds of stories writers love to write about and readers love to read about. ...
READ MOREMaster Influence for Dramatic Change - How to Gain it
July 08, 2013
Last week I blogged about the research from this month’s Harvard Business Review’s article “The Network Secrets of Great Change Agents” by Julie Battilana and Tiziana...
READ MOREMastering Influence for Dramatic Change – How to Find It
July 03, 2013
This month’s Harvard Business Review magazine features the topic of influence, both on how to both find it and gain it. Authors Julie Battilana & Tiziana Casciaro in...
READ MOREDid you do that on purpose?
June 02, 2013
I am both a friend and fan of Shawn Parr, CEO of Bulldog Drummond, a preiment design and innovation consultancy firm. See his blog entry on how organizations can and...
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