Let’s take a moment and look at the idealistic, hopeful “promises” (the promise so many still speak of and fight for at least those who haven’t gone “corporate” so to speak) we saw emerge from around 2007 and compare them against the “common reality” we see in many organizations today. Promise: Organization-wide transparency & openness […]
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I’ve always loved history. I studied it in school and the prospect of a career in history led me to be a Social Studies teacher for 8 years. In my first 3 years I was a miserable failure. I lectured way too much, drew up regurgitate the facts assignments, used a textbook exclusively, and watched
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If AI will grow to dwarf our intelligence capability, the general (maybe irrational) fear is that AI will not tolerate the inconsistent, illogical, highly emotive humans and prefer to stomp us out like a pesky insect. Maybe I’m naive but I just don’t buy into this narrative. I feel that so many cultural references have
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Do we live in a magical age or do we merely live among many magicians? working out loud requires guidance “micro-learning” is a new approach for a new age the year you were born determines your values and needs community is any group of people using social tools we learn differently in the last
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I was recently asked privately a question that I hadn’t really answered myself. Do you use any particular methodologies or models [in your personal practice]? So I thought about it and responded that there are two “models” that rather unconsciously or habitually guided my work practices as I began to shift away from a training-centric mindset.
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