Energy — our ability to generate and convert inspiration and enthusiasm into action — is at the heart of designing for change. Just like Design itself, we need to design for it to make it happen. There’s a great analogy about juggling that suggests success is as much about how many balls you have in …
It’s easy to say a lesson was learned and far more difficult to show it to be true. What can we do to best to learn from what’s happened to us and not allow often difficult, painful, hard-fought lessons to go unlearned? When the student is ready, the teacher will appear Unknown A lesson is …
Our sense of certainty and our certainty about it can be one of our most hazardous beliefs. By adopting a critical mindset to question what we know, how we know it, and what it means we might actually find we are able to create greater confidence in our knowledge, even if it is less certain. …
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Too much change psychology focuses on the way we think. Sometimes creating change requires we get out of our heads. Norman Vincent Peale is believed to have once stated: “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” Norman Vincent Peale It’s hard to deny that a change of mind can quite literally change the way you perceive the …
What is quality when we speak of learning? In this third post in series on education and evaluation metrics the issue of quality is within graduate and professional education is explored with more questions than answers about the very nature of learning itself. But what does learning really mean and do we set the system up …
I recently participated in a conference call looking to establish a conference on reducing complexity (and whether it can be done). The answer to that question is dependent upon answering whether we can create the necessary conditions to answer the question in the first place.
The benefits of taking a break from social media and the steady stream of information include improved focus and better memory; maybe we should be doing this more often.
Many are focusing on food and health this January, but what about our information diets and cognitive health? The possible cost of consuming the wrong things and the need for mindful approaches to information are discussed.
