This is Day 4 of my thread on the potential value of blogging by K-12 administrators. Today I’ll address issues related to branding and creating “customer evangelists.” Previous posts covered […]
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Ken Auletta’s profile of Sheryl Sandberg in The New Yorkeris an excellent companion to Sandberg’s TED speech of last December. The latter was passed like a Dead bootleg among a […]
One of the most frustrating experiences one can have is when we are not able to understand each other. The most common but also less frustrating situation is of course […]
Monday I posted on the reasons for the fall of Borders, reasons that go much deeper and broader than simply blaming Amazon. But how are the most treasured of urban […]
A long weekend right about now does wonders for getting a little focus back, especially after such a busy week with the eruption of Grímsvötn. I even got a weekend […]
The other day I was stopped by police officers as I was going through security at the House of Commons. Astonishingly they took me to one side and confiscated a […]
Our famous novelist Jonathan Franzen gave quite the challenging commencement address at Kenyon. Here’s what he said about technology and eros: Let me toss out the idea that, as our […]
The current retirement system assumes that people must diligently save and invest in order to buy things in the future. But what if people were free to share, barter and swap for these goods?
My boss mused aloud about Sarah Palin’s presidential chances a few weeks ago. “She’s attractive,” he said with a bit of a gleam in his eye. “And she’s white.” It […]
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world,” Percy Shelley wrote in 1821. Not surprisingly, this claim has earned some snickers from people who think of poets as barely able […]
According to this expert, that president’s big advantage is that he’s not attracted primary opposition in his bid for re-election. The left may be dissatisfied with him for not showiing […]
A lot of volcanoes produce 3-km ash plumes on the regular basis. Right now, there are probably two or three volcanoes in Kamchatka or Indonesia alone that are generating plumes of […]
During the past weeks I saw more and more interviews, blog posts and discussions on what the return of investment (ROI) of a college degree is these days. It is […]
[UPDATE: And the winner is… Suzie Linch, who submitted Nathan Barber’s blog, The Next Generation of Educational Leadership. Congratulations, Suzie!] Just a quick update… Six days after announcing my goal […]
The New York Times CEO whisperer Adam Bryant advocates fearlessness as a virtue that will help people make decisions both great and small, positively impacting both their careers and daily lives.
We are now in the heart of the summer after the long weekend (well, at least here in the US) … and it means that I’m within a week of […]
[cross-posted at LeaderTalk] Individual choices add up. For example, at the moment when I eat something unhealthy, it seems like a fairly trivial thing. Over time, however, those calories and […]
Something rather weird happened last Thursday. In one the the regular “Spring Cleaning” briefings on its developer blog, Google announced that they would limit the number of requests you may […]
Guest Blogger, Marion Ginopolis, is the former Superintendent of the Oxford Michigan Public Schools and Director of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded leadership/technology program, LEADing the Future. She […]
The news is coming fast and furious out of Sanaa. Not much is known for certain and it will likely be a while before we have all the details, but […]
The news continues to come fast and furious out of Yemen, much of it just rumors – but still it comes. Even as someone who spends a good deal of […]
The light at the end of the finals tunnel has appeared – only one set of papers (where I posed to my volcanoes class the question “if someone asked you […]
Question: How do you remain mindful when juggling two, three, four, however many things at once? Answer: You probably don’t. For a long time, cognitive scientists have observed that processing […]
n nThe other day, the Wall Street Journal featured one of the most inspiring stories about innovation that I’ve read in quite some time. Shai Agassi, once a fast-rising senior […]
When Microsoft first unveiled its Surface computer about a week ago, it was clear that something special within the world of technology innovation was happening. For example, this Popular Mechanics […]
When Elizabeth Taylor passed away this past March, the nostalgia for all things “Liz” seemed inevitable. The brass ring of this Lizapalooza, however, seems to be Andy Warhol’s painting Liz […]
An artificial silicon-based “leaf” that collects energy in much the same way as a natural one could provide a day’s worth of power for homes without access to an electricity grid.
I’m nonplussed by Mary Elizabeth Williams’ comment today, over at Salon, that Anthony Weiner’s impending fatherhood “drastically changed” the Weinergate drama. Not that I disagree that “the timing of Weiner’s […]
Our memories affect our choices. It makes a whole lot of sense: we decide based on what we know. And if we don’t have any experience with a particular decision, […]
Building on the themes he emphasized in an article last month at Rolling Stone magazine, Al Gore has announced a September event to launch The Climate Reality Project. The 24 […]