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Words of Wisdom — July 29, 2014

Margaret Heffernan on Noticing

"I regularly take my entrepreneurship students out walking because I want to get them in the habit of noticing and thinking about what they notice." - Margaret Heffernan Image courtesy of mheffernan.com

“I regularly take my entrepreneurship students out walking because I want to get them in the habit of noticing and thinking about what they notice.” – Margaret Heffernan

Image courtesy of mheffernan.com

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