Best practices are like vampires that can suck an organization of productivity, drain its creativity, and bleed its initiative. I’ve helped IT departments from automobile manufacturing companies merge. I’ve also helped banks and Internet companies merge. In all cases, I watched people who were, weeks …
A must listen interview from Seattle’s KUOW THE CONVERSATION. Highly recommended as a new way to see science, and as an offering of hints about how the Serendipity Economy is becoming reality for scientists. Michael Nielsen is the author of "Reinventing Discovery: the Era of …
I have no issue with a company creating a better mousetrap, or a better way of rating mousetraps. In the case of Klout, and their recalculations of social influence scores, the problem is implementation, not refinement. And that brings me to some other issues with …
Recently I was invited to join a Yammer community focused on learning. This morning one of the members asked a question about lurking. I thought I would also share my response here. Most recently, I have had discussion about mature groups becoming clicks that don’t …
Education Innovation In a society driven by industrial age economics and measurements, it isn’t surprising that we have slowly transformed the first knowledge economy work, education, into a factory, complete with six sigma performance objectives and assembly line views that treat all children of a …
Disneyland and the Industrial Age Below is a bit of a wandering thought piece after returning from a recent trip to Disneyland. If you don’t make it through the text, here are they key points: Disneyland was built with a clear industrial age bias by using audio-animatronics …
I had a briefing this morning with the education technology provider and publisher Cengage. During the discussion, I brought up a few of the things I have learned while speaking on education over the last couple of months. I want to reiterate those here because …
After many hours sitting around the Newark, NJ airport, I finally arrived back in Seattle late last night from my overnight trip to New York, and my keynote at Worktech 11 NYC. I gave the opening talk. I bridged scenario planning with Management by Design …
KUOW’s Steve Scher interviewed Wendy Kopp and took some very challenging questions. I encourage you to listen to the show via the web or download it to your device of choice. Wendy discusses the history and future of Teach for America as well as the …
Yesterday I gave a talk at the Snoqualmie Valley School District Foundation fundraising luncheon. My role was to help them envision the future of education. Some of the comments I made yesterday will be relevant to the scenarios we build on this blog. As …