Category: Articles
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Five Common Strategy Mistakes – Joan Magretta – Harvard Business Review
I just finished a two-year project looking at Michael Porter’s most important insights for managers. Connecting the dots between his classic frameworks (the five forces, for example) and his latest thinking (the five tests of strategy) gave me a new understanding of the most common mistakes that can derail a…
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Five myths about ‘gifted and talented’ students – The Answer Sheet – The Washington Post
My colleague Kevin Sieff wrote about gifted and talented programs in this Washington Post story, which focuses on the racial enrollment gap. Even in school systems with a majority of African-American and Hispanic students, white and Asian students tend to dominate in G&T programs. The story raises a number of…
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10 reasons the shift [to online learning] may happen faster than you think | Getting Smart
At the State EdTech Directors Association (SETDA) annual conference I talked about a dozen of the factors accelerating the shift to digital learning: via 10 reasons the shift may happen faster than you think | Getting Smart.
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8 Counter-Intuitive Ways to Improve Your Well-Being & Creativity :: Tips :: The 99 Percent
To help you break the busy-ness cycle and work happier, we’ve rounded up a handful of counter-intuitive ways to tweak your habits and your mindset. They range from obvious-but-oft-ignored tips to the slightly more eccentric. via 8 Counter-Intuitive Ways to Improve Your Well-Being & Creativity :: Tips :: The 99…
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The 40-30-30 Rule: Why Risk Is Worth It :: Tips :: The 99 Percent
Many of the strategies employed in competitive and recreational sports are applicable in business and our personal lives. One lesson I learned from alpine ski racing was the “40-30-30 Rule.” During training, early on, I tried to go fast, and I also focused on not falling. On a ride up…
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The Key to Creating Remarkable Things :: Tips :: The 99 Percent
No one likes the feeling that other people are waiting – impatiently – for you to get back to them. At the beginning of the day, faced with an overflowing inbox, a list of messages on your voicemail, and the to-do list from your last meeting, it’s tempting to want…
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10 Laws of Productivity :: Tips :: The 99 Percent
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…
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The Four Paradoxes of Great Performance :: Tips :: The 99 Percent
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…
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Is Your School Preparing Learners for Success? 5 Questions to Consider | Getting Smart
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…
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Infographic: The Digital Promise | Getting Smart
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…
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