leadership – learning – technology
Jane Hart is in her fifth year of coordinating what is possible the best list of tools used for learning. The emerging list is amazing. This is my list of tools that I find the most value in. Some I value because I learn so much by using the tool and some because I have…
How do we incorporate diversity into leadership and knowledge management practices? What tools can we use and what do we need to believe, think and understand in order to include diverse knowledge? I’ve been pondering questions like this for quite a while. Here’s what I have found. James Surowiecki’s book The Wisdom of Crowds?(2004) talks…
While consensus has its place in decision-making, it can’t get to the hard answers and narrowing down ideas elicited by the group is one place where group decisions would never get anywhere. In a recent post from The Innovationist titled The Hard Part: Sorting through all these ideas (quoted above) the suggestion was made that you…
They say to treat your friends like family and your family like friends. I think we should also say treat your staff like customers and your customers like staff. If the idea of that scares the heck out of you.. well as they also say Houston, we have a problem! Jesse Stanchak offered up an…
This is quite brilliant, fun and quick.. which means many, many people and companies will use it. I suspect the glow will wear thin for corporate use after a bit but should prove more long wearing in education and just plain fun. I can see a marriage proposal or two being done using this.. I…
A few weeks ago I had the honour of attending a Hub Gathering in celebration of the third anniversary of the Ye mi sqeqo:tel la xwe’lets emo:t o Community Engagement Hub which is hosted by the Seabird First Nation. Linda Kay Peters is their Hub coordinator and as one of the first Hub Coordinators in…