Diana Laufenberg shares three surprising things she has learned about teaching — including a key insight about learning from mistakes.
Six Ways To Stay Organized When Life Seems To Skid Out Of Control
| By Kitty Boitnott, www.forbes.com | Some people seem to be more naturally organized than others. My mother was the queen of organization. Her motto was always, “a place for everything and everything in its place.” If we dared walk away from a piece of paper for more than five minutes, it disappeared. She was notorious for putting everything […]
UNC Coach: If Football Goes Down, ‘Country Will Go Down, Too’
| By Greg Toppo, www.insidehighered.com | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill‘s football coach, Larry Fedora (left), on Wednesday said the sport is “under attack” from safety advocates, with long-term stakes moving far beyond the playing field. “I fear the game will be pushed so far from what we know that we won’t recognize it […]
These Athletes Were Told Not to Play Soccer. They Formed a Team.
| By Nichole Sobecki, Shannon Sims, www.nytimes.com | JUMBI, ZANZIBAR — “People have tried to stop me from playing,” said Riziki Abdallah, sitting in her mother’s humble home in the village of Dole in Zanzibar, a semiautonomous archipelago off the coast of Tanzania. “They say, ‘Don’t play soccer, soccer is only for men.’” In Zanzibar, you see children playing […]
4 Ways to Create a Learning Culture on Your Team
| By Tomas Chamorro-premuzic, Josh Bersin, hbr.org | Technology is disrupting every industry and area of life, and work is no exception. One of the main career implications of the digital revolution is a shift in demand for human expertise. For instance, LinkedIn’s talent research shows that half of today’s most in-demand skills weren’t even on the list three years […]
Six Steps To Becoming A Master Of Critical Thinking
| By Jay Steven Levin, www.forbes.com | Critical thinking stars are balanced thinkers. They practice moderation to insure against the perils of overthinking or underthinking. They are devotees of appropriateness and walk a path of situational awareness. Real critical thinkers are disciplined in their craft of issue resolution. They honor work rigor and those routines and habits […]
Cleveland Cavaliers Owner Runs More Than 100 Companies According to 19 Rules
| By Richard Feloni, www.businessinsider.com | Dan Gilbert runs an empire. He makes many of his public appearances as the billionaire owner of the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers, but he’s also the chairman and founder of Rock Ventures, his holding company for over 100 businesses, including the Cavs, the real-estate company Bedrock that’s transforming downtown Detroit, and the company […]
Want to be Great at Something? Get a Coach
How do we improve in the face of complexity? Atul Gawande has studied this question with a surgeon’s precision. He shares what he’s found to be the key: having a good coach to provide a more accurate picture of our reality, to instill positive habits of thinking, and to break our actions down and then […]