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School is Where We Create the Future

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[Note: The numbers have significantly increased since 2011 … and that’s the point.] A Different Way of Looking at “School” School is far more than a building in which we educate our children to pass tests and grades. It is the place where we create the future of our country. During the last 5 years I […].

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The Short Definition of “Real Learning”

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Real learning is the ability to adopt what you know and know-how to do and adapt it under an everchanging variety of circumstances.

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The Inevitable Future of Your Workplace

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Following is an excerpt from our new book, Minds at Work: Managing for Success in the Knowledge Economy co-authored with Stephen J. Gill We think that the heart of managing minds was summed up years ago by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who was a keen observer of the relationship of hands and minds at work, is thought to have said, “If […].

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Ketchup and Complexity

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I recently saw a subject line cross my inbox. “Boring Content = Boring Courses?” I felt compelled to answer with 2 words: Malcolm Gladwell. As a writer, reader, and speaker I have always enjoyed the way the best-selling author of Blink and The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference takes complex […].

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When History Happens and No One Notices

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“When we look back across five centuries, the implications of the Renaissance appear to be obvious. It seems astonishing that no one saw where it was leading, anticipating what lay around the next bend in the road and over the horizon. Even the wisest were at a hopeless disadvantage, for their only guide in sorting […].

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Real Learning is Creative

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The Question “What is the relationship between creativity and learning?” I get that question from many of the people I talk and consult with and usually babble some vague cliche about you can’t have one without the other, and that real learning depends on creativity. While that’s true the real answer is more complicated. […].

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The War of the Management Worlds

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There’s a battle going on in the world that most people have never heard about that will soon rock your work world. On one side we have the management and learning models developed during the Industrial Revolution when most people made things and companies needed to manage hands. This old 19th-century approaches and models are so entrenched we […].