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Hockey, Design Thinking & Education

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,...

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Visting Touchstone Education’s Merit Prep Charter School in Newark, NJ

Visting 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...

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The Greatest

The 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...

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What Education Can Learn From Kung Fu

What Education Can Learn From Kung Fu

August 22, 2013

What Education Can Learn From Kung Fu

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GA Tech

GA Tech

August 19, 2013

The Georgia Institute of Technology (GA-Tech) is planning to offer a MOOC-based online computer science master degree for $6,600.  This represents 15% of the cost of its...

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Slow Ideas

Slow 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. ...

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Finland

Finland

August 13, 2013

Finland's public education system, in the top 3 of the international ranking tables, is often both lauded as a model to follow and critiqued as one that could never be applied here...

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Master Influence for Dramatic Change - How to Gain it

Master 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...

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Mastering Influence for Dramatic Change – How to Find It

Mastering 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...

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Did you do that on purpose?

Did 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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