Taking advantage of sitting at the Toyota dealership in beautiful Hays, Kansas as they replace something called in inverter cooling pump. $600. Catching up on blog reviews, and here is one that caught my attention from Nilofer Merchant. Ms. Merchant argues that we have entered a post-Information Age paradigm, shifting from decision-making based on enhanced [...]
Ever since I left college I have wanted to do four things: work with truly talented people; solve tough problems; create elegant solutions; and make a difference in a meaningful cause. I would have found all four at the Denver Green School. Denver Green School: sounds like a focus on environmental sustainability. Check. But there [...]
Julie Bragdon, Assistant Head at Montessori School of Denver sums up how she views their school: “We are a wave, not a museum”. MSD prides itself on a rich heritage of the Montessori method and culture, but also in continuing to innovate in ways that would make Maria Montessori proud. My main takeaway from my [...]
Thanks Bo Adams for Tweeting me a link to the Harvard Business Review Idea Cast interview with management professor and jazz musician Frank Barrett, talking about his book “Yes to the Mess”. It is a great 20-minute piece and I encourage you to listen to it. I won’t repeat all of his wonderful images and [...]
Roger Fisher, co-author of one of the great books of our generation, “Getting to Yes”, and co-founder of the Harvard Negotiation Project, died last week at age 90. Roger was my uncle (well, first cousin, once removed actually) and one of my heroes. If you don’t read farther than this first paragraph, remember this: “Getting [...]
One school started the new academic year with back-to-school faculty professional growth day yesterday, and there is a good chance this school will never be the same. When Josie Holford, (@JosieHolford) head of K-12 Poughkeepsie Day School shot me an email two days ago about this, I could see a dense web of critical leadership [...]
Do you want to know the sounds and sights of real 21C innovation? How does a school with a long tradition of success begin to shift focus in recognition that the world we have prepared our students for in the past is rapidly fading away? Here are some snippets, thanks to a conversation I had [...]
The core goal of education is to prepare students for their future. This means that a radical transformation of education is inevitable and irreversible; it is only a matter of how efficiently we get there. Education can no longer give students the knowledge they need for the “present known”, or even for the “near-future known”. [...]
Innovation is a simple word. Gets thrown around a lot. We all want to be innovative. The fact is that true innovation, the creation and implementation of new ideas that bring true value to our organizations, is hard. Real innovation will always get stuck on the back burner as we are overwhelmed by the stress [...]
I have been so fortunate to be associated with the Behavioral Science and Leadership Department at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point for the last two years. For two summers I hosted groups of cadets in San Diego for my Falconer seminar. Last year, the cadets signed a copy of a book for me [...]