Category : Business and leadership
The Question No One Asks
Until now. A board member at an extraordinarily successful school where one of us conducted a strategic planning session last weekend wrote in an email, “How the school might defy the laws of organizational gravity and stay at the top … READ MORE
Are We At the Podcast Tipping Point?
Item 1: Podcasts can now win Pulitzer Prizes, according to this story in Engadget. Item 2: Spotify’s 2019 half-billion dollar bet on podcasts is already paying off, according to this item in The Verge. Item 3: A board member at … READ MORE
Face Time
We include facial recognition and artificial intelligence algorithms that detect emotion among the trends we are tracking this fall. Most board members and administrators react with either horror and disgust or disbelief to the notion that software developers are combining … READ MORE
What Students Know Matters (Still)
We have long championed the notion that because information is essentially free, it matters less what a students knows in terms of facts and concepts and more how adept they are at certain skills (or habits of mind and heart). … READ MORE
Why Low Trust is the New Normal
Trust. Several administrators we spoke with at a recent conference for international schools spoken with frustration about the lack of trust they experience from parents of students and even teachers. To a person, each expressed wistful longing for the good … READ MORE
Another One Bites the Dust: What is it about narcissism and hucksterism that we fail to learn?
By now anyone not living under a rock is aware of Adam Neumann’s status as the latest tech entrepreneur/wunderkind to have a career implosion amid scandal and serious allegations of misbehavior. Whether Neumann joins the ranks of Uber founder Travis … READ MORE