Jim McLaughlin's Blog

You might think that creatives as diverse as Internet entrepreneur Jack Dorsey, industrial design firm Studio 7.5, and bestselling Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami would have little in common. In fact, the tenets that guide how they – and exceptionally productive creatives across the board – make ideas happen are incredibly similar. Here are 10 laws… Read more

The more time I spend working with leaders at other companies, and leading a company of my own, the more convinced I’ve become that the paradoxical key to great performance – and leadership – is the capacity to embrace opposites. Stoic philosophers referred to this as the mutual entailment of the virtues. No virtue, they… Read more

This post by Shane Krukowski first appeared on Innovative Educator on 11/23/11. Shane is CEO of Project Foundry, a great project-based learning platform. “The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.” ~C. S. Lewis Redesigning education involves much more than providing content… Read more

OnlineSchoolg,org recently published the infographic “The Digital Promise,” which highlights the Digital Promise initiative launched by the U.S. Department of Education this September. Digital Promise was created to identify and advance the technologies in education that improve learning. It’s a forward thinking initiative that retroactively is changing education, which has fallen behind in its adoption… Read more

The bankruptcy filing by solar-manufacturing firm Solyndra less than three months ago carried the debate about federal government investments in energy into the mainstream political conversation. What’s more, that debate now has moved from a relatively narrow argument about how government can most effectively intervene in energy to a much more fundamental and radical debate… Read more

Many people have explained what one can learn from Steve Jobs. But few, if any, of these people have been inside the tent and experienced first hand what it was like to work with him. I don’t want any lessons to be lost or forgotten, so here is my list of the top twelve lessons… Read more