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22 Dec 09

Todd Sattersten | Business. Books.

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The foundation has already been laid and somehow we are waiting for everyone to catch up.
"Can I use your platform to build my own business?" says venture capitalist Fred Wilson when Jarvis brings a business associate to visit. "And before yo
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- thought experiments of what industries would look like if the terraforming nature of these forces come to pass.
- this year was What Would Google Do? The book is not about Google, but rather a new set of rules that changes what is possible.

30 Nov 09

ChangeThis :: Meaningful Digital Strategy: The Next Evolution of Marketing

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The interruptive, tell-and-sell model of slick ad copy and buying eyeballs by the thousands was already showing strain, and most digital advertising tactics were simply replicating this failing marketing model.
People were choosing to engage with their marketing and they were using marketing
itself to add value to their customers’ lives. I called this approach 'Marketing With Meaning'and captured the model in a book that was recently released: The Next Evolution of Marketing: Connect with your Customers by Marketing with Meaning.

16 Nov 09

The Leader of the Future | Page 2 | Fast Company

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What's precious, and what's expendable? Which values and operations are so central to our core that if we lose them, we lose ourselves? And which assumptions, investments, and businesses are subject to radical change? At the highest level, the work of a leader is to lead conversations about what's essential and what's not.

The Leader of the Future | Fast Company

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leadership in a fast-changing world,
so honest about what real leadership demands. The book that rocketed him to prominence was called Leadership Without Easy Answers
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- The new role is "to help people face reality and to mobilize them to make change."
- The real heroism of leadership involves having the courage to face reality -- and helping the people around you to face reality.
- "vision" refers to our capacity to see. Of course, in business, vision has come to mean something abstract or even inspirational. But the quality of any vision depends on its accuracy, not just on its appeal or on how imaginative it is.
- courage to interrogate reality
- First, what values do we stand for -- and are there gaps between those values and how we actually behave? Second, what are the skills and talents of our company -- and are there gaps between those resources and what the market demands? Third, what opportunities does the future hold -- and are there gaps between those opportunities and our ability to capitalize on them?
- "leadership means influencing the organization to face its problems and to live into its opportunities." That second idea -- mobilizing people to tackle tough challenges -- is what defines the new job of the leader
- Most companies have a remarkable tendency to underestimate their external threats and to overestimate their own power. Why is it so hard for leaders to convince people to face reality?
- have the stomach for conflict and uncertainty -- among their people and within themselves. That's why leaders of the future need to have an experimental mind-set.

10 Nov 09

Mind - Dreams as Anticipation for the State of Being Awake - NYTimes.com

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The idea is a prominent example of how neuroscience is altering assumptions about everyday (or every-night) brain functions.

21 Oct 09

Highlighter :: Add-ons for Firefox

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Allows you to highlight text on a webpage by selecting it and clicking 'Highlight' on the popup menu. If you hold down the Shift key while opening the popup menu, a s

19 Oct 09

Using the crisis to create better boards - McKinsey Quarterly - Governance - Boards

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directors are supposed to ask difficult questions about their companies. Yet they rarely ask hard questions about themselves, such as, “Are we the right people, asking the right questions, providing the right sort of leadership, challenging management in the most productive ways?”
boards are probably underreacting to the stresses—and opportunities—of economic turmoil

01 Oct 09

Child-Development Findings Are Ready for School | Edutopia

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"There's been an explosion of knowledge over the last 20 years in child-development research," he notes. "But one would be hard pressed to go through most classrooms in the United States and see a reflection of what we now know about child development."
"If you're trying to address discrimination, bias, or prejudice, it's helpful to expose students to counterstereotypical exemplars -- artwork on the wall showing girls enjoying and excelling at math, for example -- to help redefine their associations about those activities," Baron says. "Teachers, meanwhile, can become more aware of these issues. Are they calling on boys more in math class? Are they giving more praise to one group of kids than another?"

30 Sep 09

Three Tips for Becoming an Energizer - Rosabeth Moss Kanter - HarvardBusiness.org

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Just plain energy is a neglected dimension of leadership. It is a form of power available to anyone in any circumstances. While inspiration is a long-term proposition, energy is necessary on a daily basis, just to keep going.
1. A relentless focus on the bright side.
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- 2. Redefining negatives as positives
- "Positive thinking" and "counting blessings"
- 3. Fast response time. Energizers don't dawdle

27 Sep 09

A Good Way to Change a Corporate Culture - Peter Bregman - HarvardBusiness.org

We live by stories. Use stories for change management. Create aspiration by the stories. Use the stories as peer pressue

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They'd spent years playing the game by a certain set of rules and they were playing to win. Now the head of the firm wanted to change the rules mid-game. Not easy to do. And not particularly subtle. We'd have to consciously change all the elements that have developed over decades to make up the system.
But Birch found one thing that worked predictably. She put a child who didn't like peas at a table with several other children who did. Within a meal or two, the pea-hater was eating peas like the pea-lovers.

Peer pressure.
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- We tend to conform to the behavior of the people around us. Which is what makes culture change particularly challenging because everyone is conforming to the current culture. Sometimes though, the problem contains the solution.
- "Stories."
- "You change a culture with stories. Right now your stories are about how hard you work people. Like the woman you forced to work on her wedding day. You may not be proud of it, but it's the story you tell. That story conveys your culture simply and reliably. And I'm certain you're not the only one who tells it. You can be sure the bride tells it. And all her friends. If you want to change the culture, you have to change the stories."
- For a while there will be a disconnect between the new stories and the entrenched systems promoting the old culture. And that disconnect will create tension. Tension that can be harnessed to create mechanisms to support the new stories.
- For now, just change the stories.
- To start a culture change all we need to do is two simple things:
  
  Do dramatic story-worthy things that represent the culture we want to create. Then let other people tell stories about it.
  Find other people who do story-worthy things that represent the culture we want to create. Then tell stories about them.
- We live by stories. We tell them, repeat them, listen to them carefully, and act in accordance with them.
  
  We can change our stories and be changed by them.

21 Sep 09

the craft and practice of teaching
some sort of connective capacity, who connect
themselves to their students, their students to each other, and
everyone to the subject being studied. (1999, p. 27)
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- we address issues
  of technique, content, and presentation. But we all know people
  who have tremendous knowledge but fail to communicate it: people
  who ha
- Good teachers:
  
  • have a sense of purpose;
  
  • have expectations of success for all students;
  
  • tolerate ambiguity;
  
  • demonstrate a willingness to adapt and change to meet
  student needs;
  
  • are comfortable with not knowing;
  
  • reflect on their work;
  
  • learn from a variety of models;
  
  • enjoy their work and their students.

Ohio identifies voucher candidates | Cincinnati.com | The Cincinnati Enquirer

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About 88,700 Ohio children, including more than 15,000 in Cincinnati, are eligible to receive tax-paid tuition at private schools in the next school year.

Social Networking in Schools: Incentives for Participation -- THE Journal

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The NSBA also found that schools and especially parents have strong expectations about the positive roles that social networking could play in students' lives, and both are interested in social networking as a tool.
would fulfill their expectation of adding strong educational value and purpose.
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- ould need to be a strong emphasis on collaborative and planned activities, strong tools for students to express themselves, and an emphasis on bringing different kinds of students together, all with adult monitoring.
- Such evidence is tied to providing a 21st century global education, including project-based learning, which connects the social and the networking to curriculum and standards. An additional incentive considers the value and renewed focus on the development of the whole child, if changes in school accountability noted within School Accountability: A Broader Bolder Approach (BBA, 2009) become a reality.
- wiki Social Networks in Education,
- (e.g. YouTube's education channel or Flickr's Visual Story Telling), schools often ban their use. They might be considered just too global and too scary. You'll find some alternatives among the Global Projects listed by the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development in Victoria, Australia. Childnet

17 Sep 09

The Global Achievement Gap

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21st-Century Leading and Learning

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Story Me - Marketing & Sales - Biznik

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Storytelling is a basic part of human nature. We are drawn to stories. Stories teach us about the world, they teach us about each other, and they teach us about ourselves.
We all have a story.
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- Technology creates new opportunities for storytelling every day.
- Storytelling becomes a conversation.
  
  On the web, these stories really do become conversations.
- Finding the stories that stay with us.
  
  So how do we create these stories and how do we create stories that will resonate with our audience?