What does your perspective look like when you change your mind? Mindsets are based in the accumulation of identity, meaning, life experiences, and assumptions that each of us make about how the world, and the systems in it, should work. Mindsets are also backed up by the accumulated cruft of Read more…
The fact of the matter is, there is more content to read and interpret now than ever before in the course of human history. Due to the ubiquity and persistence of Google in particular, and the internet in general, more people have more to read that ever before. The problem Read more…
Caring enough to notice the presence of patterns, trendlines, and data points is hard. Knowing what patterns, trendlines, and data points to pay attention to, what patterns, trendlines, and data points to prioritize, and what patterns, trendlines, and data points to ignore until later, is hard. Collecting patterns, trendlines, and Read more…
Many times, at the intersection between human behavior and true innovative change, seeing is not believing. Or maybe that’s hearing… This often happens when the information we are confronted with about a coming future, doesn’t match with the information we have chosen to believe in the immediate present, about how Read more…
Very often, during a conversation, an email exchange, or following a workshop, the question of “Now what?” comes to the forefront. Usually in talking about motivation, morale, or in creating the conditions that will make our workplaces better, a participant in the conversation will desire advice on how to get Read more…
In every training, workshop, seminar, or presentation, there are participants who don’t want the stories, the philosophies, or the underlying data. They merely want the skills. The bullet points that will allow them to plug-in to a situation or conflict, and make it turn out in the most optimum way Read more…
The model doesn’t work without a base of content. And since quality is subjective (it always has been) and quantity is overwhelming (it has been ever since Google pushed the argument of search to its logical conclusion), the only considerations in online learning that matter are the ones based on Read more…
Social tools allow us to connect with other people now more than ever before through three important ways: Education. Entertainment. Edification. Finding the people who believe in your message, who desire to be educated, or who want to be entertained, is easier now more than ever. Of course, it’s easier Read more…
There used to be a lot of talk about great people in history. Books, philosophies, ideas, inventions, and other movements in the past were lionized by being included as part of an overall “canon” of history that people in a present age dutifully memorized, internalized, and regurgitated to the next Read more…
An all knowing, all seeing, all good God, sent His only begotten Son to the Earth to save sinners. Just writing this line, at this time of year, at the end of such a year as 2016, is considered naïve and near-sighted by many people. However, as a statement of Read more…