In helping our students begin the transition from student to professional, I often preach to my students the importance of managing their digital identity – especially as it relates to the job search. I’ve pointed out to them that having kegmaster@yahoo.com as an email address or a voicemail message that says “Dude, we stayed up […] Continue reading
In this NY Times interview with Michael Mathieu, C.E.O. of YuMe, an online video advertising firm, the CEO discusses leading and managing. His approach incorporates the elements of the 5 Practices of Leadership (Kouzes and Posner) and Emotional Intel… Continue reading
A very cool video done by a class of Anthropology students at Kansas State Univ taught by Dr. Michael Wesch.
Redesigning Education: Why Can’t We Be in Kindergarten for Life?
Great Fast Company article on how our traditional models of education, from pedagogy down to classroom design, are outmoded given what students will need to be able to do to succeed in today’s world. We have all heard the phrase, “Everything I need to know I […] Continue reading
Simplicity in Presentations
This is a nice blog post on achieving simplicity in a presentation. Simplicity requires understanding the complexity of an idea first, not just presenting a dumbed-down idea to begin with. The author provides a clear exa… Continue reading
Daniel Pink, author of “A Whole New Mind”, has a new book out on motivation, “Drive”. In it, he argues that material incentives don’t actually provide effective motivation – in fact, they may hurt performance. This isn’t really new research (see Herzberg’s two-factor theory of the late 50’s early 60’s), but maybe a popular book […] Continue reading
Chip and Dan Heath – authors of “Made to Stick” – have a new book out on how to effect change. “Switch – How to Change When Change is Hard”, highlights some simple, yet powerful, rules based in solid research on the psychology of behavior and cognition about how to drive change. One of these […] Continue reading
Sticky slides – PowerPoint presentation design: Google Street View – a great source of presentation images
Good source of presentation images – Google Street View.
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Very interesting work by a graphic design artist, Toby Ng Kwong To, on the composition of the world if it were a village of 100 people. Very sticky concept and way to present complex information. Here is an example:
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Multicultural Critical Theory. At Business School? – NYTimes.com
This article is a nice take on a “new” way of teaching business. It’s what I try to do with my undergraduate students. What is shocking to me is that this is considered “groundbreaking”. Really? We still don’t believe, as business educators, that we ought to take […] Continue reading
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